Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Peer pressure. It needs to be at least 500 words.

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Peer pressure. It needs to be at least 500 words. Peer Pressure Introduction Peer pressure&nbsp.is perceived&nbsp.as a major&nbsp.cause&nbsp.of&nbsp.unusual&nbsp.behavior among many young people. The term&nbsp.is used&nbsp.to&nbsp.suggest&nbsp.that many people, including teenagers, may behave in ways that go against their&nbsp.belief&nbsp.or values because of the&nbsp.fear&nbsp.of&nbsp.being rejected&nbsp.by their peers. Peer pressure demands that a person conforms to group norms and&nbsp.demonstrate&nbsp.his or her&nbsp.commitment&nbsp.and&nbsp.loyalty&nbsp.to other group members. This can be the pressure from their friends or those who are close whom they interact with in their daily life. In this process of peer influence, friends adapt to each other’s preferences and interests leading to a shared&nbsp.outlook&nbsp.on their world. In most cases, a young person’s personal values&nbsp.are altered&nbsp.and shaped by his peer group so as to increase his&nbsp.similarity&nbsp.with the other group members. Peer groups are usually well established in most high schools, workplaces and members of the&nbsp.group&nbsp.exert pressure to the new members joining the group.

Introduction

Friendship among teenagers is one of the most&nbsp.important&nbsp.factors during development. Friendship gives them&nbsp.secure&nbsp.venue to discover their identity and experience a sense of belonging. It also cultivates their social skills&nbsp.relevant&nbsp.for their future success. On the contrary,&nbsp.friendship&nbsp.can&nbsp.influence&nbsp.them negatively or positively whereby they end up submitting to negative or positive peer&nbsp.influence. Young people&nbsp.become&nbsp.influenced because of their self-image and self esteem. This serves as a&nbsp.motive&nbsp.for them to&nbsp.identify&nbsp.with groups that they&nbsp.fit&nbsp.or groups that will&nbsp.accept&nbsp.them. Those dimensions of the&nbsp.self&nbsp.that&nbsp.are valued&nbsp.by one’s own peer group become&nbsp.very&nbsp.outstanding&nbsp.in each young person’s self-assessment.&nbsp.

Positive Peer Pressure

Some peer pressure can be&nbsp.good. This&nbsp.is measured&nbsp.by their outcome whereby positive&nbsp.influence&nbsp.of friends&nbsp.is seen&nbsp.to play&nbsp.important&nbsp.roles among the lives of peers. Positive peers&nbsp.set&nbsp.good&nbsp.examples among themselves, and they tend&nbsp.to become&nbsp.good&nbsp.role models for each other. They can influence each other on goal oriented activities such as working together in&nbsp.school&nbsp.work, discussing problems and personal issues together that can help one to make&nbsp.good&nbsp.decisions, listening to each other, offering&nbsp.good&nbsp.advice and developing a positive&nbsp.culture&nbsp.among others. Positive peer pressure can be used to encourage and promote social behavior, because as observed peers can have a&nbsp.powerful&nbsp.effect&nbsp.on self-esteem. Well accepted children can&nbsp.display&nbsp.positive&nbsp.academic skills, social behavior and even leadership qualities, while those who are less accepted&nbsp.tend&nbsp.to&nbsp.display&nbsp.low levels of academic performance and aggressive behaviors (Newman & Newman, 296). The positive peer groups may also be involved in clubs such as sports and religious groups, which helps them to&nbsp.shape&nbsp.their values and social skills.

Negative peer pressure

Adolescents can&nbsp.submit&nbsp.to pressure from their peers and get involved in high risk activities and other&nbsp.unacceptable&nbsp.behaviors and attitudes. This could be in relation to their hobbies,&nbsp.interest&nbsp.and&nbsp.entertainment. These activities may pressure one into doing&nbsp.uncomfortable&nbsp.activities that&nbsp.include&nbsp.the use of drugs and alcohol, violence against other, stealing and shoplifting, being disrespectful, being oppositional, breaking and destroying things, use of cigarettes and having sex before one is&nbsp.ready&nbsp.among others (Dorfman & Hersen, 322). A teenager in such peer groups that drink alcoholic beverages and abuse drugs&nbsp.will be influenced&nbsp.and conformed to those habits. Teenagers who are in these peer groups&nbsp.suppress&nbsp.some of their&nbsp.individuality&nbsp.and find&nbsp.pleasure&nbsp.in focusing on the attributes they share with those peers. Therefore, they end up losing their value to&nbsp.suite&nbsp.to the&nbsp.group’s demands. The impact of this negative influence is that teenagers&nbsp.get&nbsp.to do destructive,&nbsp.unhealthy&nbsp.and&nbsp.illegal&nbsp.things which may&nbsp.ruin&nbsp.the rest of their lives. They may end up in jail, physically injured and become addicted the rest of their lives.&nbsp.

Conclusion

As members of peer groups, young people have more influence than they would have as&nbsp.single&nbsp.individuals. This is because they begin to understand the&nbsp.value&nbsp.of these&nbsp.collective&nbsp.groups and structures. In identifying with these groups, young people develop the feelings of&nbsp.connection&nbsp.and&nbsp.protection&nbsp.from loneliness. In order to avoid the impacts the negative peer influences against teenagers, it would be&nbsp.important&nbsp.if they identified with positive peer groups. Parents and school staff should also work together and establish effective strategies for that purpose. The school can&nbsp.offer&nbsp.counseling to the adolescents on the&nbsp.need&nbsp.of positive peer&nbsp.influence, while the parents can&nbsp.support&nbsp.the&nbsp.transition&nbsp.of their children from adolescence to&nbsp.maturity&nbsp.by listening to them and offering them emotional support.

Work Cited

Dorfman, William I., and Michel Hersen. Understanding psychological assessment. New York:

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. Print.

Newman, Barbara M., and Philip R. Newman. Development through life: a psychosocial

approach. 11th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Cengage Learning, 20122011. Print.