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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Peer influence is not necessarily a bad thing. The researchers are all influenced by our

peers, both negatively and positively, at any age. For teens, as school and other activities take you

away from home, you may spend more time with your friends than you do with your parents and

siblings. In school, many students are pressured because of the bad influence they experienced to

their peers. As a teen, it's likely you've experienced the effect of peer influence in a number of

different areas, ranging from the clothes you wear to the music you listen to.

Peer pressure motivates us to take positive actions that our friends are taking and persuades

us to stay away from negative activities our friends disapprove of. We are more likely to participate

in positive activities if our peers participated in them too. Teens are easily influenced by their

peers, and peer pressure can be used to spread awareness and reach vulnerable teenagers who

might be isolated in terms of other forms of communication. Negative peer pressure is the type of

pressure that you may find yourself wanting to ignore because it makes you feel uncomfortable.

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B. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study aims to know the effect of peer pressure among the Senior High School students.

Specifically, the researcher sought to answer the following questions:

1. What are the effects brought by peer pressure on students in building their personality?

C. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

Students- This research paper would be able to help students to carefully choose people to

be with. They can be able to be guided in choosing their group to be fit in. They need to critically

think where they should go and what way they wanted to be. This research paper aims to help most

especially teenagers because they are the one who are being affected with this issue.

Future Researchers- This study can be a source of information for the future researchers

especially this study is widely discuss yet, society is not really aware and conscious about this

issue. Researchers can be a way to let people know the importance of having knowledge about

peer pressure.

Parents- Parents can have the idea of the issue that their child was going through. They

can be able to have the idea of the proper way of guiding their child so that teenagers would be

able to take chances of doing right things together with their peers.

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D. ASSUMPTION OF STUDY

The assumption of this study will have the idea or concise the students if their peers are

negative or positive to them. But if peers offers you drugs, it is imperative for both you and your

family that you do not conform. Many people assume that peer pressure only applies in

adolescents, but that assumption be any more wrong.

E. SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

This study discussed also the pressure involves in peers. This is also to give emphasis to

the pressure that the teenagers will encounter their possible experiences. This study give emphasis

to all teenagers dealing with peer pressure. Teachers, parents, and peers all provide adolescents

with suggestions and feedback about what they should think and how they should behave in social

situations.

F. DEFINITION OF TERMS

Peer- is someone at your own level. If you are a 10th grader, other high school students are

your peers.

Pressure- to force someone toward a particular end

Peer Pressure- is when you are influenced by other people (your peers) to act in a certain way.

Youth-The condition or quality of being young.

Scope- the extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant.

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Imperative-absolutely necessary or required

Elicit- evoke or draw out

Personality- the quality or state of being a person.

CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

In middle school, individuals begin to form small groups of friends based on mutual

attraction, called cliques, which can help bolster self-confidence and provide a sense of identity

or belonging. In adolescence, these smaller peer groups associated with childhood expand to

recognize larger peer collectives referred to as crowds. Bradford Brown (1999) suggests that

crowds are large, loosely defined groups of youths who choose to associate with each other based

primarily on a common identification with certain characteristics or activities. Crowds help

adolescents to decide with whom to associate. Through these crowds and cliques, adolescents

demonstrate their identity to others and to themselves (Brown 1999). Margaret Spencer and

Sanford Dornbusch (1990) found that adolescents in the United States who are members of an

ethnic minority, recent immigrants in particular, rely more heavily on the support of peer groups

than European-American adolescents.

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The threat of not being accepted by their peers and the strain of belonging to two cultures

can be especially difficult. Siu Kwong Wong (1998) found that Chinese Canadian youths who

associate with Chinese Canadian friends are less likely to be involved in delinquent behavior than

those who have cross-ethnic friendships. These various peer associations exert increasing pressure

on the adolescent to adopt certain behaviors and attitudes—pressure to conform.

According to Wikipedia, peer pressure is direct influence on people by peers, or an

individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values,

or behaviors to conform to those of the influencing group or individual. This type of pressure

differs from general social pressure because it causes an individual to change in response to a

feeling of being pressured or influenced from a peer or peer group. Social groups affected include

both membership groups, in which individuals are "formally" members (such as political

parties and trade unions), and cliques in which membership is not clearly defined. However, a

person does not need to be a member or be seeking membership of a group to be affected by peer

pressure. There has been considerable study regarding peer pressure's effects on children and

adolescents, and in popular discourse the term is mostly used in the contexts of those age groups.

For children, the common themes for study regard their abilities for independent decision making;

for adolescents, peer pressure's relationship with sexual intercourse and

substance abuse have been significantly researched. Nevertheless, peer pressure can affect

individuals of all ethnicities, genders, and ages.

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CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

METHOD OF RESEARCH

The method used in this research study is qualitative. We use survey as one of the methods

of qualitative research. We determine the number of the students who experienced peer pressure

with the use of survey. This paper uses a descriptive method because the researcher aims to

describe and discuss further the factors to be considered by the teenagers in dealing with peer

pressure by gathering information about the topic, analyzing past studies conducted related to the

topic, reading articles and then make appropriate conclusion about it.

SUBJECTS OF THE STUDY

The population of this study are the Senior High School Students. A number of 175

students among four different sections were used as a sample. HUMSS 1- F. Aquino, HUMSS 2-

F. Amorsolo, HUMSS 3- Atang Dela Rama, HUMSS 4- N. Joaquin, TVL 1- N. Daza, TVL 2- W.

Torres, and STEM- Favila.

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DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH INSTRUMENT

The researcher gave survey questionnaires to the students of Senior High School to

determine the number of students who experienced peer pressure. They used these instrument in

gathering data that are listed below:

 Camera

 Laptop

 Cellphone

DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE

First, the researchers prepared questions to our respondents. Then after preparing, the

survey questionnaire distributed in all sections of Senior High school to know the answer to the

problem in research. After that, the researchers tally all the informations gathered to them.

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CHAPTER IV

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF THE DATA

RESULT OF THE STUDY

Senior High School students are responsible to answer our survey questionnaires because

they are the one who has the knowledge and experienced this peer pressure.

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1. Have you ever experienced peer pressure?

Yes No

2. 1. If you were influenced by peer pressure, how does it affect to you?

In a positive way In a negative way

BOTH
Positive Negative Positive
Section YES NO
way way and
Negative
F. Aquino 18 7 21 3 1

F. Amorsolo 19 6 4 20 1

Atang Dela Rama 17 8 11 13 1

N. Joaquin 23 3 13 11 1

N. Daza 24 1 21 4 0

W. Torres 18 7 14 11 0

Favila 25 0 16 5 4

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1. Have you ever experienced peer pressure?

Yes No

30

25

20

15

10

0
Aquino Amorsolo Dela Rama Joaquin Daza Torres Favila
YES NO

FIGURE 1.

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2. 1. If you were influenced by peer pressure, how does it affect to you?

In a positive way In a negative way

25

20

15

10

0
Aquino Amorsolo Dela Rama Joaquin Daza Torres Favila

Positive way Negative way Both

FIGURE 2.

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STATISTICAL DATA APPLIED

5%

38% YES

NO
82%

Positive way

Negative way

57%
BOTH

18%

FIGURE 1.

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CHAPTER 5

SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

All the information gathered, many of them answered YES in question number 1 and in

number 2 students answered the positive way. They experienced good things rather than doing bad

things. But some of them are not and some of them answered both positive and negative way.

CONCLUSIONS

The researcher concluded that student of Senior High School mostly experienced

favorable encounter with their peers. All the information gathered by the researchers are

concised. After they gathered information, researchers tally all the information and make a

graph. By the use of survey questionnaire researchers able to know the result in the statement of

the problem of research.

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References:

https://kidshelpline.com.au/teens/tips/handling-peer-pressure

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pressured

http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/peer-pressure.html

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/youth

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/scope

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/imperative

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/elicit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_pressure

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