Effects of Peer Pressure among College Students
Kremer, M., & Levy, D. (20008). Peer Effects and Alcohol Use among College Students. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(3), 189-206. doi:10.1257/jep.22.3.189
This article investigates the extent to which college adolescent students who engage in alcohol drinking influence their friends. Kremer & Levy (2008) who significantly utilize a natural experiment randomly select their participants then assigned them roommates with a lottery system. The results reveal that most of the male students who were assigned drinking roommates performed poorly than those assigned nondrinking roommates. However, their drinking roommates sparsely affected female students. This article is helpful for my study, as it will help me gather relevant information regarding the effects of peer pressure and alcohol use among adolescent students.
Tyler, K. A., Schmitz, R. M., & Adams, S. A. (2017). Alcohol Expectancy, Drinking Behavior, and Sexual Victimization among Female and Male College Students. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32(15), 2298–2322. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260515591280
In an article, Tyler et al. (2017) argue that college students stand high chances of taking alcohol, a behavior that is strongly linked to sexual victimization. In the study, Tyler et al. (2017) use path analysis in their bid to examine whether the rates of alcohol expectancies relate to social factor relationships such as friend’s drinking habits, or hooking up. The findings of the study reveal that for both boys and girls selected to take part in the study, there was a positive association between sexual victimization and hooking up more often child sexual abuse, and heavy drinking. However, only the female participants showed a positive association between sexual victimization and heavier alcohol expectancies. This article will be helpful in this study as it provides crucial information on the relationship between peer pressure and alcohol drinking among adolescent students.
Potard, C., Courtois, R., & Rusch, E. “The Influence of Peers on Risky Sexual Behavior during Adolescence.” The European Journal of Reproductive Health Care, 2008, 13(3), pp.264-270.
This article examines the degree by which the predominant risky behaviors in adolescents lead to social influence specifically that of peers based on their views of attitudes and sexual acts. This study uses data gathered through structured and confidential interviews involving 100 adolescent students who were randomly selected from 1467 students. Potard et al. (2008) findings reveal that there is a strong association between peers’ perception and sexual initiation and commitment. Besides Potard et al. (2008) also further found out that sex permissiveness among peers relates to higher sexual practices frequency, which is considered risky. This article will be of great use in my research as it provides data to show how peer pressure influences adolescents to engage in risky sexual behaviors and individual attitudes towards sexual practices.
Babaei H, A., Ramezankhani, A., Barekati, H., Vejdani, M., Shariatinejad, K., Panahi, R., Kashfi, S. H., Imanzad, M. (2015). Prevalence of Substance Abuse among Dormitory Students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. International journal of high-risk behaviors & addiction, 4(2), e22350. doi:10.5812/ijhrba.22350v2
This article presents a study that was conducted in 2013 with the aim of investigating the prevalence of drug and substance abuse among students living in the campus dormitories. Babaei et al. (2015) used a descriptive, analytical study involving 604 students who were selected through random sampling and a questionnaire used in collecting data. The study’s findings reveal that most of the students who were using drugs started in the dormitories or parks. Besides, drugs were more used during students’ parties and meetings with friends. This article will help me in my research as it provides essential research information revealing how students are a highly vulnerable group to drugs and substance abuse following a lack of parental supervision while at college.
Bogardt, D., Reitz, E., Sandfort, T., & Dekovic, M. (2014). A meta-analysis of the relations between three types of peer norms and adolescent sexual behaviors. Personality and Practice, Sage Journals https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1088868314544223
This article presents a study on the relationship between three peer norms-injunctive norms (peer sexual attitudes, descriptive models (peer sexual behaviors, and peer pressure to have sex- and two primary adolescent sexual behavior outcomes-sexual risk behavior, and sexual activity. The study revealed that there was a strong association between peer sexual behaviors and adolescent sexual activity than it was with peer sexual attitudes or peer pressure. This article will be helpful in my research study, as it will provide me with empirical support for differentiating the effects of the three peer norms and the implications of peer pressure on sexual interactions among adolescent college students.
Mercken, L, S., Tom A. B., Steglich, C., Vartiainen, E., & Vries, H, De. (2010). “Dynamics of Adolescent Friendship Networks and Smoking Behavior.” Social Networks, 32(1):72–81.
This article examines the mutual influence of friendship and smoking behaviors among adolescents. The article tries to disentangle the selection and influence processes in non-reciprocal and reciprocal friendships. Mercken et al. (2010) use an actor-based model in describing the co-relationship between smoking behaviors and friendship networks. In so doing, the model considers influence mechanisms and alternative selection as well as the models of continuous time-changes in establishing practices and network. The research study collects data from a longitudinal sample of 1326 adolescents. The study’s findings reveal that the selection and influence process significantly influence adolescent smoking behaviors. This article will help me in this research, as it will provide data and empirical support showing how peer pressure can affect some college students substantially to indulge in tobacco use as well as other related substance use.
Griffin, A. M., Cleveland, H. H., Schlomer, G. L., Vandenbergh, D. J., & Feinberg, M. E. (2015). Differential susceptibility: The genetic moderation of peer pressure on alcohol use. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44(10), pp.1841-1853
In this article, how peer pressure influences alcohol use among adolescents and individual susceptibility to peer influence is examined. The study investigates how the dopamine receptor D4 gene potentially affects adolescents’ vulnerability to peer environment following the role played by dopamine in pleasant sensation during social interactions. The study hypothesized that the dopamine receptor genotype status has the potential to moderately affect ton the 7th-grade antisocial peer pressures on 12th-grade alcohol use in their lifetime. Besides, the study results also reveal that there are significant major impacts for unfriendly peer pressure, but there are no primary impacts for the dopamine receptor gene repeat allele. Consequently, this article is crucial for my research as it reveals how antisocial pressure results to a rise in lifetime alcohol use among adolescents peer.
Teunissen, H. A., Kuntsche, E., Scholte, R. H J., Spijkerman, Prinstein, M., & Engels, C. M. (2016). Friends Drinking Norms and Male Adolescents’ Alcohol Consumption: The moderating role of performance-based peer influence susceptibility. Journal of Adolescence, 53(2), pp.45-54
This article presents a study examining whether the relationship between male adolescents’ alcohol consumption bad friends’ drinking behaviors can be moderated with performance-based peer influence susceptibility. During the study, 17 nondrinking male students are exposed to drinking norms of their peers during a chat room experiment. The pee influence susceptibility was assessed through alterations in the adolescent’s answers before and after being exposed to the peer norms. The results of the study revealed that there was a stronger relationship for participants who had high susceptibility. The researchers in the article argue that the behavioral measure of the level of peer influence susceptibility can have significant in alcohol use thus can be a good base for an alcohol prevention program for susceptible adolescents. This article will be helpful in my research as it provides strong evidence on how peers pressure and peer socialization can influence some adolescents in engaging in alcohol consumptions among other risky behaviors.
Widman, L., Choukas, S. B., Helms, S.W., & Prinstein, M. J. (2016). Adolescent Susceptibility to Peer Influence in Sexual Situations. Journal of Adolescent Health, 58(3), pp.323-329
This article evaluates adolescents’ engagement in risky sexual behaviors and the difference in their susceptibility. In the section, Wildan et al. (2016) argue that not all young people are susceptible to peer influence impacts through a significant number suffer from peer influence. The article further explains that having an understanding of the existing personal differences in susceptibility towards peer pressure influence is essential in identifying adolescents who are at risk of adverse impacts. The results of this study reveal that not all young people are equally susceptible to pee influence with boys showing a high susceptibility to social pressure than females. As such, this article has valuable data that will help me in analyzing the level of vulnerability to peer influence among adolescent students in colleges.
Gaironeesa, H., Shazyl, S., & Maria, F. (2015). Adolescent Peer Pressure, Leisure Boredom, and Substance Use in Low- Income Cape Town Communities. Scientific Journal Publishers., 43(1), pp.99-109 https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2015.43.1.99
This article examines whether or not leisure boredom and peer pressure influence substance use among adolescents. The study, which uses a nonprobability sampling uses 291 school going adolescents. The findings of this study reveal that a combination of leisure boredom and peer influence greatly exposed adolescents to substance use. However, peer pressure on its own was a stronger predator or substance uses that leisure boredom. As a result, this is a highly relevant article for my study as its data provides empirical support on how peer pressure influences adolescents into using alcohol and other substances.