Peer_Pressure

Peer Pressure Peer Pressure and Teens Peer pressure is a powerful mental force that influences everyone, but tends to more strongly affect people in their teenage years. It can be both good and bad depending on what they are being pressured to do. Sports figures can be a positive influence, as kids try to perfect their skills and abilities to be more like them. Characters in the movies however, tend to influence kids to follow their footsteps in an attempt to do the impossible. For a teenager, trying to fit in and be accepted is a big goal and they will often go to great extremes to be liked and popular among their peers. Their thirst for positive or negative popularity and attention forcefully affects the actions of today’s teens. “Peers become increasingly important during the teenage years” (Horn & Keough p.42). Their “self-esteem is directly affected by the degree to which they feel accepted by the peer group-and conformity is the price that’s paid to be accepted by the crowd” (Panzarine p. 146).They become very influential in such things as dress, athletics, and conduct. Peer relationships are often not looked well upon because of the types of thing kids to do to impress peer, pressure, teens, kids, often, through, popularity, influence, authority, sports, years, themselves, positive, negative, actions, about, way, very, tend, school, piercings, others, movies, movie, life, keough, however, good, become, another, viewed, thirst, teenage, teen, tattoos, skills, set