Disadvantages Of Peer Pressure

Peer pressure is a dilemma in which people tend to be easily influenced by certain ways of thinking or the lifestyles of their peers. As Peer pressures continue to spread it’s become a part of an adolescent life, which results in two different intakes known as negative, and positively influenced. Peer pressure does not just have a negative outlook it has a positive outlook as well for teens to strive to be a better.
When it comes down to peer pressure, it seems to come in all forms and size, but it does have a substantial results when peer pressure is positive. Peer pressure is understood to contribute to a negative result, which is reasonably incorrect; peer pressure can result in a positive outcome as well. There are, in fact, two types …show more content…
The problem with direct peer pressure is that it has a greater effect on individuals in comparison to indirect peer pressure. Direct is a powerful form of peer pressure because it’s difficult to resist saying no certain activities a peer wants you to take part in. This may result, in the individual to be a possible candidate for negative influence, which leads the person in the wrong direction. Padilla-Walker and Bean mentioned how direct peer pressure attempts to influence the attitudes and behaviors of a person by directly pressuring someone. As for indirect, Padilla-Walker & Bean commented on how indirect acts in an unintentional way of behaviors by engaging with other peers who take a part in certain behaviors. Indirect pressure does not have as much powerful effect, but can still influence the decisions teens make by observing others participate in certain bad actions. Even though the researched stated in the article by Walker and Bean it 's based on suggestions that negative peer pressure consisting of …show more content…
The teen’s ethnicity reflects upon the way they behave themselves toward situations that involve peer pressure. The irony between positive and negative peer pressure is that is easily influenced by one another relation toward their ethnicity. The article “Teens and Peer Pressure: Pride in Race, Ethnicity Add To Protection”, states how people with positive feelings toward their own ethnicity are more likely to resist negative peer pressure, but as well become a positive influence to one another. If teens let their ethnicity portray negative behaviors, they are more likely to sustain a negative influenced instead of a positive effect on themselves or others. That’s why positive influence is more difficult to receive because teens are more lenient toward negative influence in their same ethnic group. It does not mean that positive peer pressure is not possible; indeed it’s actually easy to get influenced by positive peer pressure, but it just depends on the peer