peer pressure
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influence that a peer group, observers or individual exerts that encourages others to change their attitudes, values, or behaviors to conform the group norms. A group trying to convince a person to do something they are unwilling to do.
Research
23,684 papers- Peer Pressure and Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood: A Latent Profile Analysis.Substance use & misuse · 2020
- Peer pressure and alcohol consumption in adults living in the UK: a systematic qualitative review.BMC public health · 2020
- Adolescent Peer Influence on Eating Behaviors via Social Media: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021
- Peer pressure and risky driving: Development of a new scale.Journal of safety research · 2022
- Implications of Peer Pressure for Adolescent Nursing Research: A Concept Analysis Approach.Comprehensive child and adolescent nursing · 2019
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Peer pressure is a direct or indirect influence on peers, i.e., members of social groups with similar interests and experiences, or social statuses. Members of a peer group are more likely to influence a person's beliefs, values, religion and behavior. A group or individual may be encouraged and want to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values or behaviors to conform to those of the influencing group or individual. For the individual affected by peer pressure, this can have both a positive or negative effect on them.
Social groups include both membership groups in which individuals hold "formal" membership (e.g. political parties, trade unions, schools) and cliques in which membership is less clearly defined. However, a person does not need to be a member or be seeking membership of a group to be affected by peer pressure. An individual may be in a crowd, a group of many cliques, and still be affected by peer pressure. Research suggests that organizations as well as individuals are susceptible to peer pressure. For example, an organization may base a decision off of the current trends to receive more affection or grow a following group.