Teenage Girls and Peer Pressure

Posted on November 27, 2007 in Latest News

Peer pressure can have adverse effects on a teenage girl or boy. A recent study conducted on teenage girls revealed that girls are more often pressurized by peers into drinking than boys. This study was actually conducted on the grounds of drinking and smoking and in both girls seems to fare better than boys or rather they were positively associated with drinking and smoking alike.

Most experts are not bewildered by this revelation as they claim that girls tend to mature faster than boys in every sense. They further assert that by the time girls reach their seventh grade, they undergo great emotional and hormonal changes as compared to boys.

Young girls give in to peer pressure out of a need to give oneself more importance, worth and credibility for being an individual and to take charge of one’s own needs and responsibilities.

The basic indicator of a teenager indulging in alcohol abuse, smoking, etc is the circle of friends itself who are also simultaneously engaged in wayward activities. This has proven true of girls and boys alike. The study was therefore conducted with close observations carried out on the behavior of five closest friends. The results revealed an alarming tendency of adolescents who were nine times more likely to indulge in drinking and smoking if they had friends around who did the same.

The research also went onto prove that teenage girls who were giving in to habits like drinking and smoking felt that their parents didn’t care for them and teenagers who felt that their parents would be upset about their ill habits were less subject to drinking and smoking.

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