{"id":3837,"date":"2022-11-12T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinecounselling4u.com\/blog\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2023-06-14T18:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:22:27","slug":"how-to-deal-with-peer-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinecounselling4u.com\/blog\/how-to-deal-with-peer-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"How to deal with Peer Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you ever done something that you didn’t want to do but still did because others were doing, if yes, then you have experienced peer pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Social beings, we interact with a lot of people on the daily basis and we offer our opinions and points of view in front of others and they also do the same. But sometimes, people gets dominating and influence others to follow them blindly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The principle of Conformity plays a very important role in this peer pressure. We don’t want to feel alone and put aside from others, so to conform to others, people sometimes engage in something that others are doing doesn\u2019t matter what they think or desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For instance, this peer pressure usually happens among adolescents while consuming alcohol<\/a>, smoking or taking drugs. If one person out of the whole group doesn\u2019t want to engage in these risks taking behaviours will still do all this because of the fear of removal from the social group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can get influenced by anyone in our life be it friends, parents, siblings, co-workers or acquaintances. They all have an impact on our opinions and viewpoints. There are two kinds of Peer Pressure- Good or Bad. Good Peer Pressure makes us do right things and helps us in life whereas Bad Peer Pressure makes us engage in bad things and degrade us. There are several ways to deal with this bad peer pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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