The Impact of Peer Pressure on Students’ Academic Performance

Studies show that the influence of peer groups among students can boost their anxiety especially pertaining to their academic performance. The relationship within the group with its peers are co-related with each other, hence the direction of this particular relationship should be monitored were these relationships should go considering all possible factors correlated within the groups outcome. Peer pressure faced by many teenagers of the society, professionals understood the concept of peer influence that could affect teenagers in a negative way which can be prevented by educating and preparing teenagers to face the negative aspects caused by peer pressure. Similarly peer influence among teenagers does not directly affect them in a negative way but it varies in how much and how the students receive the climate of the peers coming from the group (Mosha, 2017). When a student is influenced and motivated by peers he will perform excellent at school and got good grades in mathematics. Getting the support needed coming from the peer group, student tend to excel and exceed its capability and concentrate more pertaining to his studies and do good in the academic tasks in school.

Adolescence gaining social support from its peers is an important factor to cope with different problems and illnesses by letting go of emotions by talking someone. Social support plays an important role for teenagers to lessen the effects of stressful situations and stressors through the support of the peers in the group. Despite the various studies conducted for understanding the effects of peer group in student’s academic performance, no one has yet understood the nature of peer effects among students (Zhang, 2010). Knowing how the teenagers interact with their peers and how they interact with each other and how presence of peer group affect student’s academic achievement in school plays an important role for various categories and even the whole educational system. Peer pressure is commonly described as peers encouraging other teenagers to do things. Peer pressure is also caused by parent’s lack of supervision towards their children during adolescence, children tend to enjoy their peers company and spend with their peers more during the adolescence period (Puligni, 1993). There are different factors that could affects student’s academic performance in school whether it’s their family is giving proper guidance and motivation to their children with the healthy and harmonies interaction with their surroundings (Ezzarrooki, 2016). Students interactions with its peers could help enhance their capability and increase their academic performance in school because they could seek help from their peers that could serve as a motivation than working alone. Student peer group in school plays as an in socializing teenager with the peers to socialize with each other that help should the child adolescents. Interaction of students between its peer are likely to influence the students and can be crucial for the student to determine their choice and could affect student performance.

Understanding peer influence towards teenagers is important for developing and understanding how to improve socioeconomic policies. Peer among youth plays a vital role during the adolescence of a teenager. This is the time when teenagers develop deep friendship among their peers and become permanent during their adolescence (Guzman, 2017). Peer pressure towards persons behavior is said to be a social phenomenon where the members of a particular society or may not be influence negatively but majority are affected by the undesirable behavior of those people who resist what others do. Looking to the different group of factors that influence adolescence in their completion of their academic excellence it is further hindered by developmental challenges (Chen, 2008). An individual seek emotional support towards communicating publicly and showing his private objectives or goals. Indeed through showing your emotions to others individual can get emotional benefits from it because it could help them to overcome temptation and could give them emotional benefits. Also, peer groups answer questions from teenager different concern from adolescence stage including physical appearance or changing bodies.

Peer pressure could easily affect the self-esteem of students that an important factor adolescence. Individual adapt attitudes towards a certain aspect that they encountered or they are aware of (Uslu, 2013). In many events student fantasizing and visualizing what they dreamed to became through with their colleagues atmosphere. Eventually, they pursue their choices through with the influence of peer pressure. The pressure among peer group among its member may engage to do undesired things or negative behavior with the presence of a particular peer group leader who engage its member to do deviant acts or promote undesirable things to the group.

Peer group is important in the social context that plays a vital role in society and to determine the academic achievement that affect during development relatively with each other. Adaptive behavior of the development increases become broader and complex and as the age increases. School that the students attend to serves an institution among students that determine their learning capacity based on the school environment that gives the learning experience toward students (Korir, 2014). Thus choosing major courses within an institution are major choices a student intends to make but it is affected by their interactions among other students. Hence, the behavior of an individual have seen similarities among the group due to the effect of their peers, it is still difficult to relate the consequences that the individual within the group are similar with each other or social to be pursuing their intentions together to have similar outcomes. Interactions between students with their agemates appeal to enhance their learning capacity under the guidance of an adult educator.

Therefore, peer pressure cannot directly be shown to have negative or positive impact towards students’ academic performance but one can realize the appropriate coping mechanism for a problem as a technique to avoid and fight peer pressure optimistically.