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 Quiestionnaire (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'.

• Watch Brain Games Peer Pressure Episode

  Watch National Geographic's Brain Games episode on social conformity to learn that conforming is normal and sometimes healthy, and when it is not.

LINKS

• The Power of a Positive No

  The Power of a Positive No: Willie Bohanon & Friends Learn the Power of Resisting Peer Pressure (Urban Character Education) (Willie Bohanon Urban Character Education) Paperback – Picture Book, September 15, 2016 by Kip Jones 

• Refusal Skills Handout

  Use this refusal skills handout from the Poe Center to devise refusal skills 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 physical, emotional, and behavioral health including videos and free lesson plans. Search for 'peer pressure' activities.

READINGS & RESEARCH

• Teen Peer Pressure by the Numbers

  Statistics about 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. 

ORGANIZATIONS

• Rethinking Drinking from National Institutes of Health

  Resources for saying 'no' to drinking. 

READINGS & RESOURCES

• Refusal Skills Handout

  One page Refusal Skills handout from the Poe Center.