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How scary is peer pressure?

CiFact
8 min readApr 17, 2023

Peer pressure and keywords are no longer strange to young people today

“Peer pressure” with “obsessive” statements like “Look at people, look at their children…” makes many people struggle to follow invisible standards. It is a negative blade that causes young people to change so much that they forget their self-worth and original goals and follow a vague standard.

This phenomenon can usually happen to anyone at any time but is most evident in teenagers, who are starting to live independently without much life experience. And easily influenced by people around, especially when social networks have become an essential part of people’s lives.

Peer pressure is a term used a lot today in psychology and education. In the simplest terms, peer pressure appears in an individual who is influenced and influenced by people of the same age or the same social group but is said to be more successful and happier. These effects can come from within the individual or surrounding factors that promote and create pressure.

For example, a person may feel inferior and useless when he sees a friend sitting at the same table who has bought a house or a car while still using a motorbike to pay installments. Or a student may be under peer pressure when his parents compare him with “other people’s…

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