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Adolescents and Peer Groups

 

The beliefs, behavior and attitudes of these peer group show a large scale of outcomes-homogeneity, good chatting, sometimes smoking and drug abuse as compared to student body as a whole. Peer groups interaction influences individual's socialization directly as well as indirectly. Social reinforcement is the best example. if beliefs and behavior of peer group are once discouraged or negatively received, their redisplaying become difficult or even impossible, but positiveacceptance or encouragement to beliefs and behavior can arouse these beliefs and behaviors once again with other friends. But sometimes the ways of influencing are less direct. For instance, modeling process like commitment to do assignment, voicing to a belief, engaging in school new activities etc. these modeling process can bring positive or negative changes in the behavior of peer group. Gossiping, teasing, humor, communication, sharing experiences, exchanging information, interaction with each other's and even motivation in activity based engagement at school for the peer influences .The adolescent behavior is being affected significantly by Peergroups, which are considered the most influential social forces for bringing changes in the behavior from ordinary decisions regarding clothing, hairstyle, music, and entertainment, to more significant decisions relating to short and long-term education plans. .
             It is noted that during adolescence, it common for a youth's peers to become more important than parents, teachers, and counselors, and the influencing decisions of peers can have long-lasting consequences on youth. The importance of peer groups is recognized through their choice of neighborhoods, schools, and activities by Parents, that is an attempt for guidance, directions, shaping the destinies and future of their children 'friendship selections, which are more helpful in facing the lurking challenges in the adolescence stage of life.


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