Peer pressure

Literature study:
Article 1:
A mathematician called Emesto Estrada, looked at 15 different social groups, from
conrectors of the second school until Brazilian peasants. They had one thing in common,
there were leaders and followers everywhere. He got interested by that.
Estrade found out because he looked at all kinds of different groups, some things about peer
pressure. There are two types of peer pressure: Indirect and direct pressure.
When people look more abroad and away from your local city. You will get no peer pressure
from your friends or local teachers, etc. You will look at what other famous people do. So
people you arent direct in contact with. For example a trend is a very good example of
indirect pressure.
When people look more to their local city, you wont get pressure from trends etc. You will
look more at your family, your friends. So people you are direct in contact with. So for
example your friends.
https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/peer-pressure-in-kaart-gebracht?q=groepsdruk

Article 2:
Peer pressure is a psychological concept. Teenagers are extra susceptible to peer pressure,
because on this age they are developing. Peer conformity is how sensitive someone is for peer
pressure. Researches used different psychological research methods.They did a survey with 772
students between 11 and 15 years old.Then, a latent class analysis used a analistic method, to
analise the results. 47% of the people only score high on points such as: I listen to music, other
people listen to or I care what people think about me. 44% copy language and clothing style from
someone else. 9% of the people score high on point like partying, drinking and fighting. Boys
belong more to the 9% that let other people influence at points as partying, drinking and fighting.
In the other categories there were more girls that did things under peer pressure.

Source: http://www.dieponderzoek.nl/wie-is-het-meest-gevoelig-voor-peer-pressure/

Article 3:
When someone is in a social group, he will act as the rest of the group does. When someone
doesnt act as the desirable social behaviour, he or she wont feel good or even feel locked out of
the group. Peer pressure makes a specific social pressure, that makes people do things they
arent common for thereselves. Groupsthink even strengthens that, this means that the
groupsprocesses are influence the groupsopinion and often make them extreme. The people in
the group find the we-feeling more important than their own opinion.

Source: http://www.psyblog.nl/2011/04/06/peer-pressure-beer-pressure/

Article 4:
Parents may lay awake at night worrying about what other kids will force their children to do.
Friends play a more important role in your childs decisions. Teens are more likely to hang out
with other teens who do the same things. For example, a study by researchers at Columbia
University shows that kids are six times more likely to have had a drink if their friends often drink
alcohol. 71% of teens have tried alcohol by the end of high school, far fewer drink to get drunk. In
2010, 27% of students said they got drunk in the past year. This is down from almost 40% in
1997. In 2010, 34% of students had ever used drugs and only 27% had done so within the past
year. Teens who had ever used drugs peaked at 43% in 1997. Close to 31% of students reported
having ever smoked a cigarette, compared to almost 54% in 1991.
Parents influence is much more powerful than most parents realize. Not wanting to disappoint
their parents is an important barrier to teens using drugs.

Talk to us. Teens say they want to know what their parents think and how they make decisions.
Punish us. Teens who break rules typically wait to see what happens. If there are no
consequences, the rules dont matter. Limit overnight visits. Not having to go home can be too
much freedom to handle. Wait up for us. Knowing they have to face mom or dad, or both, in a
few hours makes most teens think twice about the shape theyll be in when they get home.
Parents cant anticipate every social challenge their children will face. Kids who know their
parents love them, who value their own opinions, and have practice thinking critically, have a
greater chance of saying "No thank you."

Source: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/teen-abuse-cough-medicine-9/peer-pressure?page=2

Article 5:
Peer pressure starts at the moment when childeren start to care about what other people think
about them. Susceptibility is smaller for childeren who have a lot of friends. They want to
protect the friendships that they have, and so they're more likely to do what their friends say
because they're worried about losing their friends and have difficulty making others.Younger
children who hang around with older children are susceptible to influence. Children
who have good relations with their parents feel that they have less of a need to
please their friends.

Source:
http://www.apa.org/research/action/speaking-of-psychology/peer-pressure.aspx

Research question:

How does peer pressure affect the way pupils do their homework and how well they study for tests?

Sub-questions:
Is there peer pressure when pupils are making their homework?

Is there peer pressure for getting good marks?

Hypothesis:
We think the peer pressure affects the pupils in a negative way when making homework and positive
when learning for tests.

Workplan:

14-2 workplan

15-2 make the research

testweek

holiday catch up

7-3 research Tue: A1E 240 (math)

Wed: G1B 024 (wo)

8-3 research

14-3 make presentation

15-3 make presentation

presentations

Research design

We are going to do a research about peer pressure, because peer pressure is a very common
motivation that can motivate people in a bad or good way. As an area in peer pressure, we chose
homework and studying, because we have to do it almost all day: studying and doing homework. We
are going to research how peer pressure affects how people make their homework, how they study
and if there is more peer pressure between group 8 students or 1st year students. Were going to use
a questionnaire. 2 classes are going to get the questionnaire: A1E and G1B. That are 49 pupils. We
ask them some questions about their marks, tests, diagnostic tests, friends marks, proudness, etc.
This is valid and we cover all the areas of making homework and studying for tests. We ask things
about tests from bta, gamma and alfa subjects.
Discussion

Our teamwork went pretty well, everybody did the same amount of work, we agreed
very fast, not much quarreling, etc. Although there are some things that we could do
better We could plan better, we still had to do the research, while the deadline was
in sight. The research itself is reliable because we asked valid questions and the
pupils answered them honestly. When we handed the survey out to A1E and G1B
they spend a lot of time to think about the question well. We processed the surveys
carefully to make sure not to make mistakes. With the use of excel we made correct
graphs and then we made valid and reliable conclusions. As with almost every
research it can be improved by having more test persons. We did not have enough
time to do this but we used enough test persons to make a good representation of
the first grade students.