What Are The Positive Effects Of Peer Pressure

Peer pressure on adolescents has been a widely discussed topic amongst parents, guardians and researchers. Many question how can parents prevent young adults from following the wrong foot steps of friends or other role models. For the most part, we are too focused on bad peer pressure and no one seems to question, that peer pressure can also be beneficial to adolescents. The fact of the matter, peer pressure is completely circumstantial and many factors have a role for adolescents to have a positive effect, for example the atmosphere of the individual, previous development, and spontaneous experience with peers. Numerous possibilities from the mentioned circumstances of peer pressure could resonate into having a positive effect on the person 's life. Some scenarios of the circumstances mentioned above can be argued to be either Indirect or direct forms of peer pressure, and can also be both.
One of the most vital contributors of peer pressure on an individual is the atmosphere in which they reside. The physical environment of the person can resonate to
A way to distinct between both circumstances is that regardless of an economic situation, peer such as parents can guide them in what are the correct decisions. The best way for an adolescent to develop is through the directions, advice, and support of parents or guardians. This form of influence is positive direct peer pressure and as the authors mention, this type of peer pressure had a negative relation to delinquency. Contrary to that from the same source they found that negative direct peer pressure had a bad effect in self esteem and empathy (Walker & Beam, 2009). Out of this circumstance, it is not difficult to understand that spreading positive peer pressure will affect someone to become more integrate and comport with good