Peer Pressure‚ Cause and Effect Peer pressure has become a big issue in our modern world. Many people experience it every day and a lot of times it leads to bad decision making. Peer pressure can affect you in the long run and knowing how to say no to certain things can sometimes save your life. There are many causes to peer pressure but the more noticeable one would be just pure excitement. Say that your peers are jumping their bikes off ramps and they ask you to try. You
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Peer Pressure is a Part of Student’s Life “We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." A very good morning to one and all present here. Today‚ I’m here to talk about peer pressure being a part of a student’s life. I didn’t know what to do. All these voices were repeating themselves over and over in my head. I didn’t want to give into them because I knew what I was doing was wrong. I didn’t want everyone to think I was scared but what if my parents
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Argumentative essay on peer pressure Many students especially the youth are influenced by peer pressure that is why counseling lessons have been introduced in the learning curriculum to teach students good morals as they grow and to sensitize them on things that will ruin their life if they engage themselves with the bad issues. Bad company is the most influential to teenagers especially when some of the group members have bad behaviors. In order for teachers and especially in high school to assess
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Peer pressure I. We often hear about the dangers of peer pressure to teenagers. A. Teenagers take drugs‚ skip school‚ get drunk‚ or have sex because their friends do these things. Desperate to conform to their friends’ values‚ teens may give up their interests in school‚ in hobbies‚ and even in certain people. B. Teenagers may‚ first of all‚ lose or hide their interest in school in order to be like their friends. They adopt a negative attitude in which school is seen as a battlefield‚ with
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Peer pressure‚ is something that is commonly used on teens. Peer pressure is used‚ both in positive and negative ways‚ unfortunately it’s used more often in negative ways. Because of this‚ I feel that peer pressure is more harmful than beneficial. Peer pressure can be a very powerful tool against teens. It can be used to convince peers to drink‚ smoke‚ steal and many other things. Too many times teenagers end up in jail‚ pregnant‚ or in some other kind of trouble because of something they were
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examining the nature of peer pressure perceive by adolescent‚ Brown‚ B.Bradford‚ et al (1896)‚states that 373 students in grades 7-12 were asked to indicate‚ on a 12-item index‚ the degree and direction of peer pressures they perceived from friends and acquaintances‚ and to describe their personal attitudes and behavior in areas corresponding to index items. Analyses revealed that peers were seen as encouraging misconduct less than other types of behavior. Females reported stronger peer pressure than males
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with what others are doing the so called peer pressure. Teenagers are going through tremendous physical and emotional changes as they change from childhood to young adults . There are new responsibilities to be faced ‚ exams to be taken and of course new relationships to be faced . There is rebellion against the rules and ideas that parents impose and so they flock together almost in desperation in some cases. As young people spend more time with their peers outside the family home there are opportunities
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obedience to a group. For teenagers it is difficult not to adhere to the social expectations of their peers. Though it is difficult preserving their individuality against group thinking and going against their peers‚ not giving into peer pressure saves teens from dropping out of educational institutions‚ and criminality and drug use. The term “peer” refers to people who are usually a part of an identical social group. The term "pressure" puts forwards that the process that influences people to do
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Positive Peer Pressure Whenever you hear the word peer pressure every one immediately refers to the negative influences. Have you ever explored the possibilities of positive peer pressure happening in people’s lives today? There are several examples of peer pressure out there that are positive‚ experienced mainly by teenagers that go unnoticed. The big one that needs to be focused on is the influence of not smoking‚ doing drugs‚ and drinking alcohol. Then the two other examples that we are going
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the other hand‚ usually‚ some teenagers live in a group have same styles and characters. Therefore‚ all members persuade each other by encouraging individuals to change their attitudes‚ values‚ or behaviors‚ called peer pressure (Wikipedia). It might give some positive effects to teenagers when they are pressured toward positive behaviors‚ such as volunteering for charity or excelling in academics or athletics by their peers. Yet‚ many cases in peer pressure affects negatively to teenagers’ personality
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