Effects Of Peer Pressure On Academic Achievement

The topic that will be researched is peer pressure and its influence on academic achievement. Every person has cliques, groups, and friends that they are influenced by and this is known to be peer pressure. This topic brings together the pressure and influence received from peers and studies the positive and/or negative effects it may have on a student’s academic achievement. The hypotheses investigated in this research topic are: if the student is susceptible to peer pressure, then their academic achievement will be affected; if the student is susceptible to positive peer pressure, then their academic achievement will be affected positively; if the student is susceptible to negative peer pressure, then their academic achievement will be affected negatively. Here are a few looks at the previous findings/results.
Aziz, Akhtar, and Hassan (2011) investigated peer and parent pressure on Pakistani youth. The study focused on both peer and parental pressures and made a gender-wise comparison in order to determine which pressure is stronger. There are many factors like age, culture and gender that affect the amount of influence the peer or parental pressure imposes. A questionnaire, consisting of a three point Lickert-type rating scale, was developed by researchers and was administered to 100 male and 100 female students that are enrolled in their first semester of different master degree programs in the universities of Islamabad. Variables investigated were the differences in gender-wise comparisons of peer and parental pressure on the new students. The results show that there is no significant difference in peer pressure. However, male students have more parental pressure than females because of the societal setup, where males need t...

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...group acceptance did not have a direct influence on academic performance. However, at least one of the school-related attitudes and behavior variables were determined to have a direct and positive effect on academic achievement.
Therefore, it can be concluded that peer group acceptance has an indirect influence, through school-related attitudes and behavior, on academic achievement. This is particularly important for the performance of females because they give greater importance to friendships. Peer group acceptance imposed the strongest influence on academic performance through the avoidance of problems at school. These results are limited to only adolescents who were "at risk" to school failure, additional research must be conducted in order to determine the relationship between peer group acceptance and academic achievement of students who are not "at risk".