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Peer pressure can influence you to do either good or bad things, depending on what your peers are pressuring you to do! However, whenever peer pressure is the only motivation for your actions, it's a bad thing because it's preventing you from thinking for yourself and making your own choices.
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Why resist peer pressure?
Why resist peer pressure? To answer this question you need to know more about peer pressure. Peer pressure is felt by people of all ages from the little kid who was pressured into taking a smoke to the adult who is pressured into not telling his wife about "Her" and doing bad things with "Her". There are two major types of peer pressure, They have scientific names but lets keep it on a level most people can understand. GOOD peer pressure and BAD peer pressure. Good peer pressure is called good for a reason. An example of this kind of peer pressure is pressuring your friend out of doing drugs, alcohol, or bad choices. This type should never be resisted because these people are trying to help you improve your life. Bad pressure is, yes you have already guessed it, bad. Bad peer pressure could be a multitude of things. Simple things like cheating on a homework assignment to Cheating on your significant other. This type of behavior not only hurts you but those around you. This type is never good but sadly it exists but should be avoided.
What is a good thesis stament on bad peer pressure?
peer pressure is a very influential source of negativity on both the youths and the adults.
How peer pressure affects moral decadence?
Bad peer pressure can cause the child to do bad things.
What is negetive peer pressure?
When there is bad pressure.
How is peer pressure bad?
Peer pressure is bad when your friends forces you into the wrong habits. These habits are against societal and families values.
Why do they call it peer pressure peer pressure?
Peer pressure is when you are pressured by peers (people your age group) to do something good or bad, but people usually think of bad peer pressure when brought up (e.g. being pressured to take drugs).
Examples of bad peer pressure and good peer pressure?
Bad peer pressure would be helping your friends rob a bank, or doing drugs because your friends do drugs. Good peer pressure would be helping your friends do volunteer work, or assist the elderly because your friends assist the elderly.
Why resist peer pressure?
Why resist peer pressure? To answer this question you need to know more about peer pressure. Peer pressure is felt by people of all ages from the little kid who was pressured into taking a smoke to the adult who is pressured into not telling his wife about "Her" and doing bad things with "Her". There are two major types of peer pressure, They have scientific names but lets keep it on a level most people can understand. GOOD peer pressure and BAD peer pressure. Good peer pressure is called good for a reason. An example of this kind of peer pressure is pressuring your friend out of doing drugs, alcohol, or bad choices. This type should never be resisted because these people are trying to help you improve your life. Bad pressure is, yes you have already guessed it, bad. Bad peer pressure could be a multitude of things. Simple things like cheating on a homework assignment to Cheating on your significant other. This type of behavior not only hurts you but those around you. This type is never good but sadly it exists but should be avoided.
What is a good thesis stament on bad peer pressure?
peer pressure is a very influential source of negativity on both the youths and the adults.
What are the bad effects of peer groups?
peer pressure
How peer pressure affects moral decadence?
Bad peer pressure can cause the child to do bad things.
What is negetive peer pressure?
When there is bad pressure.
What kinds of peer pressure?
There are acutally 3 types of peer pressure:Direct Peer PressureUnspoken Indirect Peer PressurePositive Peer PressureActually, there are two:NegativePositveNegative has many different sub-types such as:See Numbers 1 & 2 in the above answer (above the line)Positive has the same as Negative.
How is peer pressure bad?
Peer pressure is bad when your friends forces you into the wrong habits. These habits are against societal and families values.
Is peer pressure always a negative or bad thing?
There are positive peer pressure and there are negative peer pressure. In most cases peer pressure is positive, this happens hen it leads to a positive attitude in a child.
What is the type of peer pressure?
Well, that's hard to say considering when you hear "peer pressure" it comes off as a bad thing. But the worst I'd probably say would be sex peer pressure, drug peer pressure, and criminal peer pressure (as in breaking the law)
Can peer pressure be a good influence?
of course,like for example when youre about to steal something and your friend sees you and shes like stop, this isn't right: that's good peer presure but bad peer pressure is when your friend just encourages you to do the wrong thing when she knows its wrong.
