Outcomes of Teaching Children about Peer Pressure
Everyone would know how to deal with situations where they are being peer pressured. They would also know how to not fall for it as frequently as they do nowadays. The students would now know how to give positive peer pressure to their peers, for example, “According to research, if properly harnessed, the same pressure can motivate individuals to stay focused and work hard towards achieving their goals. Positive effects of peer pressure on teenagers are also evident by the example of a student who is motivated to get good grades because his friends are getting good grades – an action that can be attributed to positive peer pressure”
(How Positive Peer Pressure Works. (n.d.). Retrieved February, 2018, from https://www.secureteen.com/peer-pressure/how-positive-peer-pressure-works/)
Challenge Constellation
Nowadays peer pressure is being regularized at schools by students which causes most of them to fall for peer pressure and don't know how to identify it. The students that were taught now know how to identify it when they are in a certain situations. A positive effect of this is that students are going out of their comfort zones which pushes them to be better people. A negative effect is that students are now doing the opposite, they are now pushed out of their comfort zones in order to please their peers which makes their environment unsafe. This causes them to do the negative actions that they usually wouldn't do on their own.
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