Social Pressures

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So now I am going to discuss another social pressure of relationships, these include peer, parental and family pressures.

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Looking at it from a social learning view, peer relationships change as children age and as they do, pressure and friendship can affect social development in the ways they learn and function in different aspects of a child’s life, including the family, the school and the community.

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Acceptance from peers is linked to childhood happiness and how they are perceived and treated by other children within a group.

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They therefore tend to worry a lot about their social hierarchical position and, with many children being concerned about how others perceive them and being included into society. This leads to intense peer pressure (Oswalt, 2014).

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Whereas development from peers is linked to school achievement (Gifford-Smitha, Brownell, 2002), neglect and rejection from peers and other children can have significant effects on their social development. One would feel unwanted and unworthy, not having that constant interaction to learn from through the schooling period.

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It was found that a childhood involving rejection from peers resulted in unsuccessful friendships and relationships in the future, because most individuals did not have the confidence to feel worthy enough to build such bridges (Dunn & McGuire, 1992)

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In terms of parents and the pressures that are investigated....

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Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development explained that children who are pressured by parents to conform to a particular role they don’t identify with may also rebel - expectations from parents to achieve (Mooney, 2013)

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Children are more likely to suffer from self-esteem issues and confidence problems if the parental pressure is too strong, questioning intelligence, own abilities and leading to a lack of satisfaction during adult life.

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