ARE YOU EXPERIENCING PEER PRESSURE ?

There are some noticeable signs that we could pay attention:

- Being low self-esteem while peers achieve success

If individuals have peer pressure, comparison between themselves’ progress and their friends’ ones is apparent. Moreover, people also feel disappointed at our laziness. However, every individual has their own milestones, so core values exist in ourselves and later on, we'll successfully highlight ourselves. 

This can be clearly seen in students' reactions while receiving their grades after assessment or staff's attitudes when their colleagues could finish better than them

 

- Being adaptive with the new habits that they have tried for the first time:

People tend to pay attention and could be attracted by their friends’ good as well as bad habits:
Good practices include waking up early in the morning, doing exercises and others. However, we could also be affected by some bad habits like smoking, drug addiction, using bad words while communicating and others.

  

- Feeling that they are not suitable for ourselves:

When friends have a conversation about uncomfortable things, people will have different perceptions about those things. The reason is that they have a distinction of thought from their peers. It will be more separative and complicated if it is assumed that people do not have any similarities to their friends’ groups.

Especially if there are differences in how to wear simple clothes and expensive ones or the way of eating a simple meal in our family and many delicious dishes like in luxurious restaurants.

 

 

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