Peer Pressure

Peer Group: a group of people of similar age, background, and social status, with whom a person associates and who are likely to influence the person's behavior and beliefs.

Peer Pressure: social pressure by members of one's peer group to take a certain action, adopt certain values, or conform to be accepted.

Direct Peer Pressure: when a peer is directly telling you or pressuring you to do something.

Indirect Peer Pressure: when you see a group of other people doing something and you want to do it too because it seems fun or because you want to fit in.

• Resistance to Peer Influence Scale

  Take this quiz to find out how high your resistance to peer influence is.

• Brief Situational Confidence Questionnaire (BSCQ)

  Assess your confidence level in eight different situations that could tempt someone to engage in substance use or compulsive behavior. 

ACTIVITIES

• Draw a How to Say No Poster with Kids

  Watch this video and create a drawing with your kids depicting how they would say 'No'.

LINKS

• Video Series to Watch with Kids

  Subscribe to Fresberg's YouTube channel for educational and leadership cartoons to watch with kids.

ORGANIZATIONS

• Students Against Destructive Decisions

  SADD fosters a sense of belonging and promotes resiliency, leadership, and advocacy skills so that young people make positive life decisions that will carry them throughout life.

• Health and Opioid Prevention Education

  Excellent 8th Grade Lesson Plan on Refusal Skills..

• KidsHealth and TeensHealth

  KidsHealth.org and TeenHealth.org help families take charge of their physcial, emotional, and behavioral health including videos and free lesson plans. Search for 'peer pressure' activities.

• Reach Out.com

  ReachOut is a strengths-based prevention and early intervention model offering classroom resources on a variety of topics including friendships.

READINGS & RESEARCH

• Teen Peer Pressure by the Numbers

  Statistics about peer pressure.

• Peer Pressure

  A guide to help kids deal.

Peers: Other kids around the same age or in the same grade as you.

Pressure: When there is force upon an object or in this case a person.

Peer Pressure: When other kids put pressure on you to believe or behave in a certain way.

Direct Pressure: When a peer is directly telling you or pressuring you to do something.

Indirect Pressure: When you see a group of other people doing something and you want to do it too because it seems fun or because you want to fit in.

Negative Peer Pressure: When you make a choice to do something wrong, unhealthy, or risky because you think "everybody" else is doing it.

Positive Peer Pressure: When you make a choice to do the right or healthy thing because you think "everybody" else is doing it.

• Resistance to Peer Influence Scale

  Take this quiz to find out how high your resistance to peer influence is.

• Brief Situational Confidence Questionnaire (BSCQ)

  Assess your confidence level in eight different situations that could tempt someone to engage in substance use or compulsive behavior. 

LINKS

• Rethinking Drinking from National Institutes of Health

  Resources for saying 'no' to drinking. 

ATTACHMENT

• Responding to peer pressure 

  How do we respond? Try this!

ORGANIZATIONS

• Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)

  SADD fosters a sense of belonging and promotes resiliency, leadership, and advocacy skills so that young people make positive life decisions that will carry them throughout life.

READINGS & RESOURCES

• Refusal Skills Handout

  One page Refusal Skills handout from the Poe Center.