PEER PRESSURE

PEER PRESSURE

1. DEFINITION

   • PEER
     • Someone in your own age group
   • PRESSURE
     • Feeling that you're being pushed
   • PEER PRESSURE
     • Act of pressuring others to do something they don't want
     • Pressure by a peer group that inflicts social pressure on somebody

2. KINDS

   • POSITIVE
     • Act compassionately
   • NEGATIVE
     • Negative pressure that concerns others

3. CAUSES

   • EXTERNAL
     • Media
     • Family
     • Expectations
   • INTERNAL
     • Low self-esteem

4. EFFECTS

   • Depression
   • Confusion
   • Arrest
   • Drug addiction
   • Fear and frustation
   • Automobile accident

5. OVERCOME

   • Resist
   • Don't be fooled by moral relativism
   • Carefully choosing friends
   • Parents' teaching
     • shield children
     • at very young age
     • support new positive friendships
   • Say 'NO' by asking others to walk in your shoes
   • Say 'NO' by showing what needs to be done for a 'YES'
     • don't give in
   • Say firm 'NO' politely
     • go by the rules
     • avoid the source
     • flee from the sources
     • prepare to pay the price

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