Studies show that the influence of peer groups among student can boost their anxiety especially

pertaining to their education (Kadir, Atmowasdoyo & Salija 2018). The relationship within the group
with its peers are co-related with each other, hence the direction of this particular relationship should
be monitored were these relationships should go considering all possible factors correlated within the
groups outcome (Wilson, 2016). Peer pressure faced by many teenagers of the society, professionals
understood the concept of peer influence that could affect teenagers in a negative way which can be
prevented by educating and preparing teenagers to face the negative aspects caused by peer pressure
(Temitope & Og0nsakin, 2015). Similarly peer influence among teenagers does not directly affect them
in a negative way but it varies in how much and how the students receive the climate of the peers
coming from the group (Mosha, 2017). When a student is influenced and motivated by peers he will
perform excellent at school and got good grades in mathematics (Boechnke, 2018). Getting the support
needed coming from the peer group, student tend to excel and exceed its capability and concentrate
more pertaining to his studies and do good in the academic tasks in school (Olalekan, 2016).

Peer pressure could easily affect the self-esteem of students that an important factor adolescence.
Individual adapt attitudes towards a certain aspect that they encountered or they are aware of (Uslu,
2013). In many events student fantasizing and visualizing what they dreamed to became through with
their colleagues atmosphere. Eventually, they pursue their choices through with the influence of peer
pressure (Owoyele & Toyobo, 2008). The pressure among peer group among its member may engage to
do undesired things or negative behavior with the presence of a particular peer group leader who
engage its member to do deviant acts or promote undesirable things to the group (Dumas, Ellis, &
Wolfe, 2012).

Peer group is important in the social context that plays a vital role in society and to determine the
academic achievement that affect during development relatively with each other (Chen, 2008). Adaptive
behavior of the development increases become broader and complex and as the age increases (Yonus,
Mushtaq & Qaiser n.d.). School that the students attend to serves an institution among students that
determine their learning capacity based on the school environment that gives the learning experience
toward students (Korir, 2014). Thus choosing major courses within an institution are major choices a
student intends to make but it is affected by their interactions among other students (Porter & Umbach,
2006). Hence, the behavior of an individual have seen similarities among the group due to the effect of
their peers, it is still difficult to relate the consequences that the individual within the group are similar
with each other or social to be pursuing their intentions together to have similar outcomes (Kremer &
Levy, 2008). Interactions between students with their agemates appeal to enhance their learning
capacity under the guidance of an adult educator (Kinderman, 2016).

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The children at adolescent age share their problems and feeling with their friends.

The nature of relationship with friends depends on the parenting style. The strong

relationship with parents may result in the weak relationship with friends and vice versa.

The social influence can occur at three levels. According to Atwater and Duffy

(1999) at the first level one can publicly go with others but refuse to change his private

beliefs at this stage little peer pressure can affect. The second level of social influence is

when people behave like others because they are attracted with them. They change their

style and adopt the group or person has and when they apart one returned on their own.

At this stage one has no personal intention; he/she will do the same as the others in group

will do. They can return to their original beliefs when the peer pressure removed. The

third level is where someone has truly influenced and changes his own forever. This is

the crucial stage one can build or destroy his future because of this influence or pressure.

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Peer pressure is the influence exerted by a peer group or an individual encouraging other individuals to
change their attitudes, values or behaviors in order to conform to group norms (Treynor, 2009). Social
groups affected include membership groups in which individuals are formally members and in which
membership is not clearly defined. Among adults, it is considered a rare phenomenon, though with the
increasing competition for resources and personal progress, adult peer pressure is an emerging area of
interest.

Peer pressure is not always a bad thing because peer groups can actually have a very positive influence
on individual's behavior. For some adults, a peer group can be a source of security, a learning
opportunity and a source of encouragement among others. The difference between negative and
positive peer pressure is the impact it has on the person. While most forms of influence don't
necessarily feel comfortable for the person on the receiving end, the outcomes of the influence are
likely to be mostly positive.
Despite the risk, peer groups remain a very essential part of an individual because they have several
benefits to an individual. Peer group is a safe place to meet like-minded individuals, allows one to take
positive risks and test out values and opinions of others, test out their strengths and limitations, feel
safe and boost their self-confidence, explore new and positive things including music, other interesting
activities, feel understood and accepted by others going through the same phase and improve their
ability to make personal choices.

http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/

In this way, peer influence can lead teens to engage in new activities that can help build strong
pathways in the brain. As described in the article, “Teens and Decision Making: What Brain Science
Reveals”, neural connections that are weak or seldom used are removed during adolescence through a
process called synaptic pruning, allowing the brain to redirect precious resources toward more active
connections. This means that teens have the potential, through their choices and the behaviors they
engage in, to shape their own brain development. Therefore, skill-building activities such as those
physical, learning, and creative endeavors that teens are often encouraged to try through positive peer
influence not only provide stimulating challenges, but can simultaneously build strong pathways in the
brain. http://janettemanese.blogspot.com/

The following is a literature review offering a discussion of the role of peer influences, friendship bonds,
motivation, and goal setting, relative to academic performance. Friendships, Peer Groups, and
MotivationResearcher Thomas Berndt described four-types of support that the bonds of friendship
provide: (1) informational; (2) instrumental; (3) companionship; (4) esteem (Berndt; 2004.) Each of these
support-types reinforce a sense of interdependence among group members while simultaneously
reinforcing an increase in autonomy. In defining the bonds of friendship, as described by Berndt (2004),
researcher Kathryn R. Wetzel (2004) stated: Informational support refers to guidance and advice in
personal problems with parents, romantic relationships, teachers or other friends. Instrumental support
refers to help on any type of task, such as homework or chores. Companionship support refers to
reliance on friends to do things with, such as someone to eat lunch with or go to a dance or sporting
event. Esteem support refers to the encouragement friends provide both when life is going well (e.g.,
congratulating each other) and when life does not go as one hoped (e.g., consoling in the face of failure).
(Wentzel, 2004).

https://www.researchgate.net/

Peer pressure appears to be a powerful force affecting educational choices and whether students
undertake important investments that could improve academic performance or outcomes. In our case,
in non-honors classes, even very low-income students are willing to forgo free access to an SAT prep
course that could improve their educational and possibly later life outcomes, solely in order to avoid
having their peers know about it. In other words, peer pressure profoundly affects student willingness to
accept opportunities that may lead to more post-secondary options. Whatever else you can glean from
this experiment, it’s a powerful argument for school choice programs that allow families to enroll
children in schools outside their zip code.

https://njleftbehind.org/

In our study “The effect of peer pressure to the behavior of teenagers” we reviewed a similar case
relative to peer pressure entitled “How Does Peer Pressure affect Educational Investments” this study
created two experiments which are the Leaderboard natural experiment and Field experiment. These
experiments focus on how academic effort reflect to the behavior of the students in two high school
setting, the researchers conducted this study to explore the effort and investment of students to their
academic performance such as taking the SAT examination wherein this is an examination for
application to US colleges. The researchers observed how students’ performances differ in a widespread
and personal manner. Leader board natural experiment In this experiment, the researchers introduce
software to a high school students’ where there is a given online individual accounts that they can
access from their computer and devices with internet connection. The students answer questions and
when they answer correctly the system will provide private feedback to students. Without any notice,
the software introduced a new feature of point system and rankings and leader boards. Students will
now be awarded with a point in every correct answer every point accumulated will be cumulative every
time students’ answers modules. The point system will also be with ranking wherein students have
access to the top 3 on the leader board, and the students can also access their rank privately. The
performance of the students declined at 23 percent due to avoidance on appearing to the leader board,
those students who are in the top of the class declined their performance by 38 percent, while students
at the bottom improved slightly. The result of this experiment is that students tend to reduce effort and
performance to avoid appearing on the leader board.

Field experiment The second experiments were given access to SAT preparatory course, wherein this
would equip students to have a supporting document for their college application. During the signing-up
to the software students are asked if they will take the right to confidentiality of their results to their
peers, wherein there is a question if they would keep a public or private profile. The students are
divided in two segments where in there are honor students and students who take both honor and non-
honor classes. Students in the latter are more affected within the sign-up system. As the experiment
occurs the researchers observed that students who are proficient performance in a class they make their
result viewed in publicly and when they performed poorly on another class they will make their result in
a private mode. The students taking honor and non-honor classes tend to reflect their performance
according to their capabilities in a subject student are cautious of their environment they consider how
efficient they are before reveal or kept their test result.
Psychosocial Development Theory The study is relative to Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development
Theory this identifies a series of eight stages of life, from infancy to late adulthood. Each stage a person
will experiences psychosocial crisis wherein these experiences results to negative or positive outcome
for a person’s personality development. The study will focus on the 5th stage of the theory which is the
Identity Vs. Role Confusion, this is where a person sense of self and personal identity. A person at this
stage is at Adolescence period wherein the person is having its own personal sense of beliefs, values,
and goals. During this point of life, a person finds his identity thru his environment; a person develops
with the contribution of the people that surrounds him family, friends, relatives, interest groups,
reference groups etc. Peer pressure is triggered by those who people normally interact with this could
result in a positive or negative manner, from a Netflix TV series13 reasons why it produces a story of a
teenager named Hannah Baker committed suicide due to pressure from his peers. The story talks about
a boy figuring what cause her death from the tapes that she left each tape has an story to tell why her
suicide occur. The tapes talk about a person and what does this person contribute to her pain and stress
to her environment, all the toxic and wrong behavior of the people around her gives her the reason why
she ends her own life due to people not understanding her also her rights because she was also raped by
his schoolmate she then reports it to their dean but he didn’t act because the boy’s family is influential.
From an article, it is said that peer pressure is necessary for development that people needs a push to
improve, to proceed for the development but an amount of pressure can really give a bad effect to a
person just like the issue of Hannah Baker. In the 5th stage of Psychosocial theory people will experience
crisis such as pressure from people such as they may dictate a person to do certain things discordance to
the persons’ will, this is the stage where a person is trying to discover his identity and peer pressure
added to some facts that it affects the persons’ improvement.

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Motivational Correlates of Peer Relationships that Suggest Peer Influences Studies on the various kinds
of peer relationships suggest that it is likely that peers shape children’s academic development and
school motivation. Most of the studies do not claim that they are able to identify peer influences, but
they point out various avenues through which the presence of peers at school can become beneficial for
academic and motivational development. Studies on peer acceptance demonstrate that social status in
the classroom is related to feelings of belonging in school, academic engagement, and achievement
(e.g., Cillessen & van den Berg, 2012; Ladd, Herald-Brown, & Kochel, 2009). From kindergarten to post-
secondary education, when students experience rejection from their peers, this limits their participation
in classroom activities (Flook, Repetti, & Ullman, 2005; Véronneau, Vitaro, Brendgen, Dishion, &
Tremblay, 2010). Conversely, when children are accepted by their peers and feel included, this fosters
motivation and learning in school (for a review, see Juvonen, et al., 2012). Popularity seems to be
different from peer acceptance; when children aim to become popular, this goal can be detrimental to
their achievement (Kiefer & Ryan, 2008). Convergent findings result from studies on perceived peer
support (Murdock, 1999), on students’ feelings of belonging (Hamm & Faircloth, 2005), and on support
in schools’ peer cultures (Lynch, Lerner, & Leventhal, 2013). Note that findings on correlations among
acceptance, belonging or support, and academic outcome variables (like GPA) are overall very similar to
the findings about motivation (Veronneau & Vitaro, 2007). Kindermann Peer Group Influences 9
Indications of peer influences from social crowds at school are likewise consistent. Studies focus on peer
pressure with regard to academic orientations, especially during pre-adolescence (Brown, Mounts,
Lamborn, & Steinberg, 1993). For example, students known as “Brains” exhibit highest levels of
academic competence and have more academically-oriented friends (LaGreca & Prinstein, 2001). Again,
findings on relations between crowds and achievement are compatible with motivational influence
processes (Steinberg, Dornbusch, & Brown, 1992). Studies on friendships have similarly shown that peer
characteristics are connected to children’s decisions for academic versus non-academic activities during
class time and beyond (Kilian, Hofer, Fries, & Kunle, 2010), to engagement with schoolwork (Donna,
Laursen, Kiuru, Nurmi, & Salmela-Aro, 2014), as well as to their ability attributions for success and
failure, and their values of academic standards (Altermatt & Pomeranz, 2003), their academic
aspirations (Hallinan & Williams, 1990), classroom participation, school involvement, and overall
adjustment to school (Berndt & Keefe, 1995; Hamm & Faircloth, 2005). Overall, the relations with
academic achievement seem consistent with that view (Ryan, 2001). Similarly, studies on smaller cliques
and peer networks of students who frequently interact with one another (SCM groups) have also shown
that the characteristics of a child’s group members are related to that child’s motivation. Thus, early
adolescents’ peer group affiliations are connected to their tendencies to drop out from school (Cairns,
Cairns, & Neckerman, 1990), their engagement in the classroom (Kindermann, 2007) and in school
(Wentzel, 2005), as well as their academic achievement (Chen, Chang, Liu, & He, 2008).

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Negative Influences

In some peer groups, being smart is looked down upon. Similarly, these groups tend to share low
aspirations of going to college or getting certain careers. There may be other values in place, such as
taking care of the family or making money sooner rather than going to college first.

In addition, studies suggest that peers influence each other more heavily in the early teen years. For
example, 14-year-olds are more likely to engage in risky, self-destructive behavior than 18-year-olds are.
The theory is that by 18, a young man or woman is more autonomous and has clear aspirations of where
he or she wants to go and how to get there. Consequently, if risky behavior doesn't fit into the equation,
an older teen is able to pass easily without feeling badly. However, the pressure to fit in for
someone entering high school is tremendous.

Positive Influences

Many peer groups can be a positive influence on their friends as well. It is thought that intelligent
students help their peers bring up their grades. Likewise, girls with good friends who are considered
intelligent tend to do better in school. There definitely seems to be a pattern in the influence of studious
kids. With that said, another common theme is similar aspirations. Students that want to go to a four-
year college tend to hang out with others with similar aspirations.
https://teens.lovetoknow.com/

Peer pressure appears to be a powerful force affecting educational choices and whether students
undertake important investments that could improve academic performance or outcomes. In our case,
in non-honors classes, even very low-income students are willing to forgo free access to an SAT prep
course that could improve their educational and possibly later life outcomes, solely in order to avoid
having their peers know about it.
https://njleftbehind.org/

Studies show that the influence of peer groups among student can boost their anxiety especially
pertaining to their education (Kadir, Atmowasdoyo & Salija 2018). The relationship within the group
with its peers are co-related with each other, hence the direction of this particular relationship should
be monitored were these relationships should go considering all possible factors correlated within the
groups outcome (Wilson, 2016). Peer pressure faced by many teenagers of the society, professionals
understood the concept of peer influence that could affect teenagers in a negative way which can be
prevented by educating and preparing teenagers to face the negative aspects caused by peer pressure
(Temitope & Og0nsakin, 2015). Similarly peer influence among teenagers does not directly affect them
in a negative way but it varies in how much and how the students receive the climate of the peers
coming from the group (Mosha, 2017). When a student is influenced and motivated by peers he will
perform excellent at school and got good grades in mathematics (Boechnke, 2018). Getting the support
needed coming from the peer group, student tend to excel and exceed its capability and concentrate
more pertaining to his studies and do good in the academic tasks in school (Olalekan, 2016).

Peer pressure could easily affect the self-esteem of students that an important factor adolescence.
Individual adapt attitudes towards a certain aspect that they encountered or they are aware of (Uslu,
2013). In many events student fantasizing and visualizing what they dreamed to became through with
their colleagues atmosphere. Eventually, they pursue their choices through with the influence of peer
pressure (Owoyele & Toyobo, 2008). The pressure among peer group among its member may engage to
do undesired things or negative behavior with the presence of a particular peer group leader who
engage its member to do deviant acts or promote undesirable things to the group (Dumas, Ellis, &
Wolfe, 2012).

Peer group is important in the social context that plays a vital role in society and to determine the
academic achievement that affect during development relatively with each other (Chen, 2008). Adaptive
behavior of the development increases become broader and complex and as the age increases (Yonus,
Mushtaq & Qaiser n.d.). School that the students attend to serves an institution among students that
determine their learning capacity based on the school environment that gives the learning experience
toward students (Korir, 2014). Thus choosing major courses within an institution are major choices a
student intends to make but it is affected by their interactions among other students (Porter & Umbach,
2006). Hence, the behavior of an individual have seen similarities among the group due to the effect of
their peers, it is still difficult to relate the consequences that the individual within the group are similar
with each other or social to be pursuing their intentions together to have similar outcomes (Kremer &
Levy, 2008). Interactions between students with their agemates appeal to enhance their learning
capacity under the guidance of an adult educator (Kinderman, 2016). Therefore, Peer Pressure cannot
directly be shown to have negative or positive impact towards students’ academic performance but one
can realize the appropriate coping mechanism for a problem as a technique to avoid and fight peer
pressure optimistically.
http://www.ijsrp.org/

A negative peer pressure is a factor in lower test scores Johnson (2000). Having negative peer pressure
may encourage a student to have some vices like drinking, smoking, taking drugsand other factors
causes absenteeism or cutting classes that drag down their performance inschool. Moreover

, “Negative peer pressure is when there are bad things going on and you are

either being influenced, persuaded, or pushed into doing something because of peer pressure,
and because of that t

here can be many down effects”

Salinas (2012).

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Peer pressure is the influence from members of one's peer group. This can include influencing another
to drink, smoke, cheat on a test, participate in sexual activities, lying, skipping class, etc. The list is
endless. Peer pressure in high school is both harmful and effective because it can lead to teen
depression, high stress levels, negative behavior issues, and poor decision-making and outcomes.

Peer pressure is something that causes conflict in an individual's life. The feeling of not fitting in, not
being good enough, and not being a part of the “group” overwhelms and takes over the mindset of a
regular teen. High stress and hurtful experiences seem to always be the result to giving to peer pressure
because of the endless amount of negative aspects that can come with it. Statistics say between 20% –
30% of adolescents report symptoms of depression because of peer pressure.

https://vocal.media/

Pressure means giving force to any activities. Peer pressure means influence of friends on each
other and inducing changes in the mental and emotional behavior by the people belonging to
same group with similar interest, age, background and social status (Weinfied 2010). Peer
pressure normally linked with adolescent risk taking behavior; such as crime, drug abuse and
sexual behaviours. These behaviours are associated with peer influence. The positive result also
seen due to the effect of peer pressure, for example a marked increase in the achievement,
voluntary charity, public work etc. (Kellie 2013). But contrarily, the maximum result is for
negative behaviour. Normally, the student skips classes, steals, and cheats, takes to drugs or
alcohol as a cause of peer pressure. Influences of peer may be in all ages and places, such as in
work place, in school, or in society. Peer pressure tends to influence the group to loiter in the
street, watch films, bunk class, tease others, steal, spoil public properties. ( Arief , 2011)

Peer group composition often keeps changing the children, when he or she enters middle
school and have more opportunities to have new friendships. Hartup (1996) reviewed evidence
showing that adolescents initially associate with peers who resemble themselves in terms of
behaviour, interests, and attitudes, and subsequently reinforce in each other those
characteristics that brought them together in the first place. This leads to conventional
friendship to further comply with social norms, whereas antisocial friends engage in
increasingly problematic behaviour. The term selection refers to this process of “asssortative
pairing” through which, individuals choose friends who share their attitudes and behavior, and
socialization refers to friends’ mutual influence on their respective behaviours and attitudes
(Kandel, 1978). Both are important aspects of early adolescent changes in academic
engagement and in problem behaviour (Reitz, Dekovic, Meijer, & Engels, 2006; Woolley, Kol, &
Bowen, 2009). Friends’ characteristics therefore, constitute an important factor to take into
account when trying to predict changes in an individual's adjustment trajectory.
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Peer group is a group of people of same age or social status. The peer group is the first social
group outside the home in which a student with physical and health impairment attempts to
gain acceptance and recognition. Peer group is an important influence throughout one‟s life
but they are more critical during the developmental years of childhood and adolescence as it is
an important socialization agent for student with physical and health impairment
(Castrogiovanni, 2012). Peer pressure refers to the influence exerted by a peer group in
encouraging a person to change his/her attitudes and values in order to conform to group
norms (Kirk, 2014). Adeagbo (2013) stated that students with physical and health impairment
always emulate their mates in whatever form of behaviour they exhibit, particularly that which
interest them.
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Peer effect is a familiar topic, but there are difficulties to demonstrate it. To say
“demonstration of peer effect” inevitably connotes demonstrating the causal
relationship of peer effect in which peers affect others. There are four well-known
difficulties4 . One is called an endogenous problem5 , in which we could not know
whether an individual’s outcome is affected by peer’s outcome or vice versa from
correlated data. Another is called an exogenous problem, in which individual’s
outcome is affected by peer’s background characteristics6 (e.g. sex, height, family
background, race, and parental income). A third is called a contextual effect, in
which both individual’s outcome and peer’s outcomes are simultaneously
affected by their shared social and environmental factors (e.g. neighborhood,
classroom teacher, school curriculum, social norm). The other is called a selection
problem, in which individuals generally self-select peers. To avoid these problems,
a few methods have been suggested. Steglich et al. (2010) show the stochastic
actor-oriented model using dynamic network data. Others are experimental
methods of using random assignment data (Sacerdote, 2001; Falk and Ichino,
2006) or partial assignment of random interventions (Duflo and Saez, 2003; An,
2011). The stochastic actororiented model relies on strong parametric
assumptions, and the contextual confounding problem of biased network. The
experimental methods are problematic when experiments are unethical to
conduct randomization.
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Each peer group has its code of conduct which does not always conform to
adult standards. The important thing is that each child takes his/her
membership of the per very serious and attempts to do anything to ensure
he/she is accepted and recognized. Lack of acceptance by t he peer disturbs
the child especially at adolescent age. Some children have been known to do
badly in school not because they lack the academic ability to do well but
because they are disturbed by the fact they are not accepted by their peer
group. What makes learning comparative is the fact that the child has equal
status with the other children. There is an atmosphere of freedom in which
each child learns the way of the world from others. The peer group thus
becomes more and more important to the child as he advances in age. Other
ways in which the peer group can help the child include, teaching the culture
of the society at large, making possible social mobility, providing opportunity
for the child to play many social roles such as that of a leader, a follower,
teacher or student. The peer group also help the child to win his/her
independence easily from domination and set before him a goal which is
more easily attainable than the expectation of adults. This in itself provides
motivation for learning and is mainly responsible for the fact that all children
at one stage or the other regard their membership of peer group as very
important. https://www.grossarchive.com/
Peer pressure is constantly a worry in parents' minds. You see it on TV.
Maybe, you read an article discussing the latest incident at school. But is
peer pressure all that bad? According to Carrie Silver-Stock, licensed
clinical social worker, founder of Girls with Dreams and writer of the
books Secrets Girls Keep: What Girls Hide (& Why) and How to Break the
Stress of Silence, it can be. Carrie stated, "negative peer pressure can be
detrimental to self-esteem, influence clear decision-making, and increase
stress. In the worst cases, it can lead to harmful or dangerous behaviors
that could result in death, such as car accidents involving alcohol,
accidents, drug overdose, and more."
https://teens.lovetoknow.com/

The Positive Side:

Usually, peer pressure is used in a negative context. But there is always another side of
the coin. Yes, there is also a positive peer pressure. Peer pressure cannot be termed
bad always. It can also lead you to adopt good habits in life. Your peers may teach you
some good things about life and encourage you to follow them. For instance, if you see
your peers doing something for a noble cause, you may also like to adopt their certain
habit. This will help you to change yourself for the better. Adopting good habits of your
peers can actually bring about a positive change not only in your life but also your way
of thinking. Peer pressure can actually leave a positive impact on your life if you
carefully pick certain good habits from your peers. Since there is a huge diversity in
human behaviour, exposure to peer pressure will give you a good opportunity to
analyse the likes and viewpoint of different people. This will result in getting a chance to
choose the best from what the masses have to offer. Peers might even inspire you in
some way or the other or even persuade you to bring about a constructive change in
your life. Therefore, peer pressure can also have a positive impact on your life and can
actually lead you to make the right choices for yourself.

The Negative Side:

Most of you are well aware how negative peer pressure can influence one’s life but we
would still like to throw some more light on this aspect. There might be a particular idea,
a habit, or a lifestyle which you personally dislike and would not like to accept. However,
your peer group would want to compel you to do something which is against your own
will. As a result, when you take a wrong decision by succumbing to peer pressure, you
may land yourself in deep sorrow and feel remorseful about the whole situation.
Similarly, a large number of vices such as smoking, drinking, becoming drug addict etc.,
are cultivated when teenagers blindly follow their peers, putting aside their own will.
Furthermore, you lose your identity by surrendering to peer pressure. You lose your
lifestyle and entirely adopt your peers’ way of living. You no longer follow your own taste
and are forced to like what your peers like and do what they do. This is how peer
pressure can yield a wide array of negative outcomes for your life.
Therefore, it is better to learn something from peer pressure by adopting good habits
and avoid succumbing to its negative side.
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Negative Effects of Peer Pressure

When you do not like a particular idea or when you have no inclination towards a
particular field, it is obvious that you won't like to go by it. For sure, you won't like to
go that way. But it is you peer group, which may compel you on doing something you
hate. In such cases, there are chances that you won't do well in those things. Things
you do not enjoy doing cannot fetch you success. You cannot emerge successful in
something you have never liked doing. So, it is important that you do not lose
happiness of your life by succumbing to peer pressure.

Many a time, it so happens, that we are forced to lead a certain kind of lifestyle due
to peer pressure. You may not like partying on every weekend, you may not like night
outs with friends, you may hate drinking or smoking, but peer pressure may make you
do all that you had never wished to. There are many teenagers who experience great
pressure from their peer group that forces them to take to drinking. You may take to
something as grave as drug use, and that too, only because of peer pressure. In such
cases, being overly pressurized by you peers can be detrimental to your living. Some
teenagers literally spoil their lives by giving in to peer pressure.

Peer pressure can lead to a loss of individuality. Extreme peer pressure may lead you
to follow what your peers feel right. Their pressure may compel you to go by
everything they think right. You tend to blindly imitate the masses; you adopt their
tastes of fashion, clothing, hair, music and general living. Peer pressure can actually
lead you to lose you tastes of life and force yourself to begin liking what they like.
Peer pressure is the human tendency to join the bandwagon, in which, the person
loses his/her original way of looking at life.

Positive Effects of Peer Pressure

Peer pressure is not always bad. It can help you analyze yourself and contemplate on
your ways of life. Some of the practices that the masses follow may actually teach
you the way of living. You may be able to change yourself for the better. Looking at
what others do, can help you bring about a positive change in your way of thinking. If
you can pick selectively, peer pressure can actually result in a positive change in your
way of life.

Knowing what the masses follow exposes you to the world outside your home. You
understand the things going on around you. You are exposed to a wide variety in
human behavior. Exposure to peer pressure gives you an opportunity to think about
their tastes and their outlooks towards life. It gives you a chance to choose the best
from what the masses do.
If you are fortunate to get a good peer group, your peers can play a vital role in the
shaping of your personality. Their way of looking at life may influence you to change
for betterment. Some of your peers are your close friends, who do not pressurize you
to do things but rather inspire you to change yourself. Your peer group may actually
persuade you to bring about a constructive change in your personality. Peer pressure
can lead you to make the right choices in life.
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