Peer Pressure
Have you ever been peer pressured? If so, what did you do? How did you feel? Peer pressure doesn’t only happen to teens, it happens to people of all ages. Who knows, you could have possibly pressured someone into doing something without even knowing it. Not all peer pressure is done intentionally; and it isn’t always bad, but that doesn’t mean it is always good. All people handle these types of situations differently, some better than others. Overall, peer pressure is positive because it enforces kids to try new things, it just takes a responsible teen to know their morals. “Peer pressure” is a term generally associated with the social pains of the preteen and teenage years.
People are peer pressured every day. Whether it’s to take a shot of alcohol, take a puff off a cigarette or some weed, or to just simply trip some kid when they walk by your desk. Some kids fall into peer pressure for many different reasons, maybe because they’re desperate to be liked, they want to make people laugh, or they don’t want to lose their friends. “My freshman year, I still felt desperate to be liked. I had friends, but what I really wanted was to be part of “the group”. I didn’t think I was different from anybody else. I didn’t understand why I wasn’t chosen to be part of the big clique.” Parents play a big role in this time of their children’s lives.
Parents are often torn at this point, feeling a loss of control over influences and experience their son or daughter will encounter. Peer pressure now enters the scene, bringing an array of tempting new ideas to challenge each child. Peer pressure is perhaps the single most influential factor our little ones must learn to deal with. A strong sense of family values can go a long way i...
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Even as peer pressure mounts in early adolescence, kids' brains are developing an ability to help fight the temptations of risky behavior, novel new research reports. Over the study period, activity increases in a brain region known as the ventral striatum correlated with an increase in the children's self-reported ability to deflect peer pressure, said study author Jennifer Pfeifer, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and director of its Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab. She added that early adolescence is a key period because peer influence has been shown to be greatest during late elementary to early middle school.
Hollywood has a giant impact on how children act in today’s society. They show drugs and alcohol on TV programs and in music and these teens think it is glamorous.
“Peer Pressure: Its Influence on Teens and Decision Making.” 2008. Teacher Scholastic Journal. Retrieved 2008. (http://headsup.scholastic.com/articles/peer-pressure-its-influence-on-teens-and-decision-making).
One should remember that not all peer pressure is bad, although that is mostly what you see today. Good peer pressure needs to be done more, because why would you want to make someone do something bad, instead of helping them do something good and impacting them, because honestly who would want a worse world rather than a better one? Truly the way to improve our lives as human beings lies on peer pressure, it is at the core of ways we can make a change for a better, and not more for the
Though others may say that conformity and peer pressure are a part of our daily lives, and is healthy to share with others, conforming only to peer pressure isn’t
Remember your first cigarette? How about your first beer? First puff on a fatty? What about jumping off the old bridge into the creek? What/who convinced you to do it? Friends...Right? Peer Pressure: Influence from members of one's peer group (and a hard thing to resist if you ask me). Well, studies show that I am not alone. Peer pressure is a condition of the brain! The human brain values achievement in social settings over achievements performed alone. Two parts of the brain linked with rewards, the striatum and the medial prefrontal cortex, showed much more activity in success amongst friends than success by oneself.
“The main consequence of saying no to negative peer pressure is not just withstanding "The heat of the moment," as most adults think. Rather, it is coping with a sense of exclusion as others engage in the behavior and leave the adolescent increasingly alone. It is the loss of the shared experience. Further, the sense of exclusion remains whenever the group later recounts what happened. This feeling of loneliness then becomes pervasive but carries an easy solution -- go along with the crowd.”
Peer pressure doesn’t occur only in adolescents, as mention in an online paper, “No one is immune from peer pressure”. Perhaps a man is feeling intimidated by a neighbor because they have a brand new truck while he’s still trying to pay off the old truck. Yet, the pressure kicks in and makes him stretch his limits. Resulting in putting up a front for something/someone
One of the most important reasons of teenage drug usage is peer pressure. Peer pressure makes drugs seem popular, makes you have a fear of being an outcast, and since everyone is doing it, it is the "cool" thing to do…right? Wrong. Peer pressure represents social influences that effect adolescents, it can have a positive, or a negative effect, depending on person's social group and one can follow one path of the other. We are greatly influenced by the people around us. In today's colleges, drugs are very common; peer pressure usually is the reason for their usage (www.nodrugs.com 1). If the people in your social group use drugs, there will be pressure a direct or indirect pressure from them. A person may be offered to try drugs, which is direct pressure. Indirect pressure is when someone sees everyone around him using drugs and he might think that there is noth...
"Parents and teachers often miss children's nascent understanding of group dynamics, as well as kids' willingness to buck to the pressure," Killen explains. Children begin to figure out the costs and consequences of resisting peer group pressure early. By adolescence, they find it only gets more complicated."
Peer pressure is the influence that a social group of friends has on an individual’s behavior; specifically students in high school. Teenagers
Peer Pressure is influence from members of one's peer group to do a certain action, make a choice, or change their opinion. In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”, Orwell is pressured by the people of Lower Burma through the killing of the Indian man and through British imperialism. My own friends were peer pressured which transpired into negative consequences. Finally almost all of the Teen Court cases I personally have dealt with have involved peer pressure. People believe that they must conform to society in order to find their niche, but it is only needed to be original and yourself to fit in society.
Peer pressure is the influence from members of one’s peer group. Peer pressure affect many school aged children, and teenager, because of the desire to want to fit in. Affects of giving into peer pressure can lead to taking drugs, drinking alcohol, and having sex. By researching
... instead of following the majority. The issue of peer pressure can relate to teens, as they are in constant pressure to be ‘cool’ or to be in the ‘in’ group. It does not really promote individualism, so people cannot develop their own ideas but rather follow the leader of their group.
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” (Dr.Seuss). Society often thinks of peer pressure as a negative implement. Often times the community imagines peer pressure as teen influencing one another to experiment with drugs, alcohol, and sexual intercourse. But really all peer pressure is, is the encouragement of changing values and behaviors of an individual. Peer pressure can be thought of as positive for teens, because it allows and individual to become a leader in an environment, strong encouragement to work hard in school, and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Children grow up and move into teenage lifestyles, involvement with their peers, and how they look in other peoples eyes start to matter. Their hormones kick in, and they experience rapid changes in their minds, and bodies. They also develop a mind of their own, questioning the adult standards and need for their parental guidance. By trying new values and testing ideas with peers there is less of a chance of being criticized. Even though peer pressure can have positive effects, the most part is the bad part.
Peer pressure is when we are influenced to do something we normally wouldn't do because we want to fit in with other people or be accepted by our peers (A peer is someone you look up to like a friend, someone in the community or even someone on TV).