This study explores whether the opinions from others have an influence on young adults like college students’ judgments and decision-making. We predict that social pressure plays a significant role in college students’ behaviour. In this study, 100 students in Monash University are recruited in a self-report research -- the Adolescent Peer Susceptibility Scale (APSS), using a 5-point Likert scale. The level of pressure they feel from their social group under given situations ranges from five to one. The mean scores of all the items in questionnaire from all the participants would be calculated. If the final average level scores over one, then the hypothesis will be supported. College students are susceptible to social norms when making decisions;
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The degree to which one engages in antisocial behaviors depends on the ratio between pro-social and anti-social messages and reinforcements one receives from the environment, in particular through their peers. Adolescents are susceptible to their peers ' depressive implications when they are engaged in communications of their problems and negative feelings. They also suggested that factors that are associated with attachment and connection – to families, school, religion, or otherwise – represent a youth 's “buy-in” to the social environment in which they are placed and thus render them more willing to modify their behaviors to meet the conventions of that environment. College student is also a vulnerable group to social pressure. A Study conducted by Clemens and Lewis (2008) about the influence of social norms and peer pressure on 235 college students’ substance use. Data were collected by handing out questionnaires about quantity and the frequency of alcohol and marijuana use as well as the perceptions of substance use within their social network. Multiple data analyses indicted that the social normative beliefs in a group especially with same gender had a strong connection with the variance in alcohol and marijuana …show more content…
We introduce a newly developed self-report instrument -- the Adolescent Peer Susceptibility Scale (APSS) created by Kosten (2007), which includes 31 items. Students will be asked to provide information about the consistency of their own wills and their behaviours to investigate their true motives behind those actions under the listed cases. For example, “I drink alcohols because my friends do” and that “ I don 't wear clothes that are out of style.” And those items will be followed by a 5-point Likert scale, providing five responses categories ranging from 5 (Always true of me) through 0 (Not true of me). Participants will be required to choose one response that first comes out of their mind. The scores of individual participants will indicate the degree that their behaviours are affected by social pressure. In each questions, students score zero means there is no detectable influences of others, while soring five shows that the individual is highly dependent on others’ opinions in that specific
The degree to which one engages in antisocial behaviors depends on the ratio between pro-social and anti-social messages and reinforcements one receives from the environment, in particular through their peers. Adolescents are susceptible to their peers ' depressive implications when they are engaged in communications of their problems and negative feelings. They also suggested that factors that are associated with attachment and connection – to families, school, religion, or otherwise – represent a youth 's “buy-in” to the social environment in which they are placed and thus render them more willing to modify their behaviors to meet the conventions of that environment. College student is also a vulnerable group to social pressure. A Study conducted by Clemens and Lewis (2008) about the influence of social norms and peer pressure on 235 college students’ substance use. Data were collected by handing out questionnaires about quantity and the frequency of alcohol and marijuana use as well as the perceptions of substance use within their social network. Multiple data analyses indicted that the social normative beliefs in a group especially with same gender had a strong connection with the variance in alcohol and marijuana …show more content…
We introduce a newly developed self-report instrument -- the Adolescent Peer Susceptibility Scale (APSS) created by Kosten (2007), which includes 31 items. Students will be asked to provide information about the consistency of their own wills and their behaviours to investigate their true motives behind those actions under the listed cases. For example, “I drink alcohols because my friends do” and that “ I don 't wear clothes that are out of style.” And those items will be followed by a 5-point Likert scale, providing five responses categories ranging from 5 (Always true of me) through 0 (Not true of me). Participants will be required to choose one response that first comes out of their mind. The scores of individual participants will indicate the degree that their behaviours are affected by social pressure. In each questions, students score zero means there is no detectable influences of others, while soring five shows that the individual is highly dependent on others’ opinions in that specific