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  1. Peer Pressure: A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Last ...

    Peer pressure has long been recognized as a significant influence on individuals' behaviors, particularly in adolescence and young adulthood. This paper provides a detailed review of the literature over the past two decades on the peer pressure. Peer pressure remains a pervasive influence on individuals' behaviors, particularly during ...

  2. (PDF) Peer Influence Literature Review - ResearchGate

    Review of the literature on peer influence and risky behavior. Discover the world's research. ... Black males, Peer pressure, and High expectations. January 2016. Theodore Ransaw;

  3. Peer Pressure: A Comprehensive Literature Review of ... - IJFMR

    Abstract. Peer pressure has long been recognized as a significant influence on individuals' behaviors, particularly in adolescence and young adulthood. This paper provides a detailed review of the literature over the past two decades on the peer pressure. Peer pressure remains a pervasive influence on individuals' behaviors, particularly during ...

  4. Toward understanding the functions of peer influence: A ...

    This literature review focuses on factors that make adolescence a period of special vulnerability to peer influence. Herein, we advance the Influence-Compatibility Model, which integrates converging views about early adolescence as a period of increased conformity with evidence that peer influence functions to increase affiliate similarity.

  5. Dimensions of Peer Influences and Their Relationship to ...

    Peer pressure for fighting had large positive correlations with adolescent reports of their frequency of problem behavior (rs = .47 to .68), and was the strongest predictor of the three measures of aggression (rs = .62, .68, and .22 for adolescent’ reported physical aggression and relational aggression, and teacher-reported physical ...

  6. Peer Influences on Adolescent Decision Making - PMC

    Peer Influences on Adolescent Risk Behavior. Consistent with self-reports of lower resistance to peer influence among adolescents than adults (Steinberg & Monahan, 2007), observational data point to the role of peer influences as a primary contextual factor contributing to adolescents' heightened tendency to make risky decisions.

  7. PEER INFLUENCE IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND ...

    The more subtle form of peer pressure is known as peer. influence, and it involves changing one’s behavior to meet the perceived expectations of. others (Burns & Darling, 2002). In general, most teens conform to peer pressure about. fairly insignificant things like music, clothing, or hairstyles.

  8. Toward understanding the functions of peer influence: A ...

    The alterations wrought by peer influence can be for good or for ill. Peer influence is a neutral term, agnostic to the type of change. In this sense, peer influence stands apart from peer pressure and socialization, which describe (respectively) mal-adaptive and adaptive change (Laursen, 2018). Peer pressure has negative connotations that imply

  9. Peer Pressure in College Students: A Comparitive Study

    There is a need to understand the effects of peer pressure on the college students and how are they influenced by them and what are the needs of the students to be pressurised by the peers. II. LITERATURE REVIEW Fishbein in 1996 proposed that adult peer pressure is challenging especially when an individual is trying to fit in a certain group.

  10. Peer Pressure - SpringerLink

    A process through which members of a relevant social group (e.g., similarly aged peers, friends, coworkers) exert social influence on others to conform to norms specifying appropriate thoughts, feelings, or actions. Peer pressure often involves the explicit or implicit threat of punishment if group norms are ignored or rejected.