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Peer Pressure Draft
Peer Pressure Draft
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Peer influence is not necessarily a bad thing. The researchers are all influenced by our
peers, both negatively and positively, at any age. For teens, as school and other activities take you
away from home, you may spend more time with your friends than you do with your parents and
siblings. In school, many students are pressured because of the bad influence they experienced to
their peers. As a teen, it's likely you've experienced the effect of peer influence in a number of
different areas, ranging from the clothes you wear to the music you listen to.
Peer pressure motivates us to take positive actions that our friends are taking and persuades
us to stay away from negative activities our friends disapprove of. We are more likely to participate
in positive activities if our peers participated in them too. Teens are easily influenced by their
peers, and peer pressure can be used to spread awareness and reach vulnerable teenagers who
might be isolated in terms of other forms of communication. Negative peer pressure is the type of
pressure that you may find yourself wanting to ignore because it makes you feel uncomfortable.
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This study aims to know the effect of peer pressure among the Senior High School students.
1. What are the effects brought by peer pressure on students in building their personality?
Students- This research paper would be able to help students to carefully choose people to
be with. They can be able to be guided in choosing their group to be fit in. They need to critically
think where they should go and what way they wanted to be. This research paper aims to help most
especially teenagers because they are the one who are being affected with this issue.
Future Researchers- This study can be a source of information for the future researchers
especially this study is widely discuss yet, society is not really aware and conscious about this
issue. Researchers can be a way to let people know the importance of having knowledge about
peer pressure.
Parents- Parents can have the idea of the issue that their child was going through. They
can be able to have the idea of the proper way of guiding their child so that teenagers would be
able to take chances of doing right things together with their peers.
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D. ASSUMPTION OF STUDY
The assumption of this study will have the idea or concise the students if their peers are
negative or positive to them. But if peers offers you drugs, it is imperative for both you and your
family that you do not conform. Many people assume that peer pressure only applies in
This study discussed also the pressure involves in peers. This is also to give emphasis to
the pressure that the teenagers will encounter their possible experiences. This study give emphasis
to all teenagers dealing with peer pressure. Teachers, parents, and peers all provide adolescents
with suggestions and feedback about what they should think and how they should behave in social
situations.
F. DEFINITION OF TERMS
Peer- is someone at your own level. If you are a 10th grader, other high school students are
your peers.
Peer Pressure- is when you are influenced by other people (your peers) to act in a certain way.
Scope- the extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant.
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CHAPTER II
In middle school, individuals begin to form small groups of friends based on mutual
attraction, called cliques, which can help bolster self-confidence and provide a sense of identity
or belonging. In adolescence, these smaller peer groups associated with childhood expand to
recognize larger peer collectives referred to as crowds. Bradford Brown (1999) suggests that
crowds are large, loosely defined groups of youths who choose to associate with each other based
adolescents to decide with whom to associate. Through these crowds and cliques, adolescents
demonstrate their identity to others and to themselves (Brown 1999). Margaret Spencer and
Sanford Dornbusch (1990) found that adolescents in the United States who are members of an
ethnic minority, recent immigrants in particular, rely more heavily on the support of peer groups
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The threat of not being accepted by their peers and the strain of belonging to two cultures
can be especially difficult. Siu Kwong Wong (1998) found that Chinese Canadian youths who
associate with Chinese Canadian friends are less likely to be involved in delinquent behavior than
those who have cross-ethnic friendships. These various peer associations exert increasing pressure
individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values,
or behaviors to conform to those of the influencing group or individual. This type of pressure
differs from general social pressure because it causes an individual to change in response to a
feeling of being pressured or influenced from a peer or peer group. Social groups affected include
both membership groups, in which individuals are "formally" members (such as political
parties and trade unions), and cliques in which membership is not clearly defined. However, a
person does not need to be a member or be seeking membership of a group to be affected by peer
pressure. There has been considerable study regarding peer pressure's effects on children and
adolescents, and in popular discourse the term is mostly used in the contexts of those age groups.
For children, the common themes for study regard their abilities for independent decision making;
substance abuse have been significantly researched. Nevertheless, peer pressure can affect
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CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
METHOD OF RESEARCH
The method used in this research study is qualitative. We use survey as one of the methods
of qualitative research. We determine the number of the students who experienced peer pressure
with the use of survey. This paper uses a descriptive method because the researcher aims to
describe and discuss further the factors to be considered by the teenagers in dealing with peer
pressure by gathering information about the topic, analyzing past studies conducted related to the
topic, reading articles and then make appropriate conclusion about it.
The population of this study are the Senior High School Students. A number of 175
students among four different sections were used as a sample. HUMSS 1- F. Aquino, HUMSS 2-
F. Amorsolo, HUMSS 3- Atang Dela Rama, HUMSS 4- N. Joaquin, TVL 1- N. Daza, TVL 2- W.
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The researcher gave survey questionnaires to the students of Senior High School to
determine the number of students who experienced peer pressure. They used these instrument in
Camera
Laptop
Cellphone
First, the researchers prepared questions to our respondents. Then after preparing, the
survey questionnaire distributed in all sections of Senior High school to know the answer to the
problem in research. After that, the researchers tally all the informations gathered to them.
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CHAPTER IV
Senior High School students are responsible to answer our survey questionnaires because
they are the one who has the knowledge and experienced this peer pressure.
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Yes No
BOTH
Positive Negative Positive
Section YES NO
way way and
Negative
F. Aquino 18 7 21 3 1
F. Amorsolo 19 6 4 20 1
N. Joaquin 23 3 13 11 1
N. Daza 24 1 21 4 0
W. Torres 18 7 14 11 0
Favila 25 0 16 5 4
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Yes No
30
25
20
15
10
0
Aquino Amorsolo Dela Rama Joaquin Daza Torres Favila
YES NO
FIGURE 1.
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25
20
15
10
0
Aquino Amorsolo Dela Rama Joaquin Daza Torres Favila
FIGURE 2.
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5%
38% YES
NO
82%
Positive way
Negative way
57%
BOTH
18%
FIGURE 1.
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CHAPTER 5
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
All the information gathered, many of them answered YES in question number 1 and in
number 2 students answered the positive way. They experienced good things rather than doing bad
things. But some of them are not and some of them answered both positive and negative way.
CONCLUSIONS
The researcher concluded that student of Senior High School mostly experienced
favorable encounter with their peers. All the information gathered by the researchers are
concised. After they gathered information, researchers tally all the information and make a
graph. By the use of survey questionnaire researchers able to know the result in the statement of
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References:
https://kidshelpline.com.au/teens/tips/handling-peer-pressure
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pressured
http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/peer-pressure.html
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/youth
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/scope
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/imperative
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/elicit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_pressure
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