Sentence examples for peer group pressure from inspiring English sources

I regret that the peer group pressure lulled me into complacency.

"In order for [the convention] to work, it is dependent on peer group pressure.

The negative influence of peer group pressure reinforces cultural isolation and promotes failure.

"My view is that it's the gang culture, so it doesn't matter what parents say, it's the peer group pressure that is more important".

These are youths struggling, too soon, too close to the beginnings of their lives, to become adult, to become men; forced to do so by poverty and family breakdown, by peer group pressure, by the lack of opportunity and expectation.

The best route to respect, he argues, lies in empowering people to discuss their own behaviour "so there is peer group pressure to behave, rather than imposition by authority".

Colleges are encapsulated communities in which peer group pressures are especially intense and pervasive.

As is now widely recognised, science is socially constructed by all sorts of rules, peer group pressures, personal values and expectations.

"We require them to make decisions that will affect their whole future careers at an impossibly early age, typically around 14. It seems as if our society expects children at the height of adolescence to make these absolutely fundamental decisions when they are swayed by things of the moment, and by cultural and peer group pressures, never mind parents and teachers".

Research on barriers to adopting healthier diets should address habits, socio-cultural pressures (e.g. peer group pressures in adolescence) and access to healthy food, or information about healthy eating.

Since the issues of 'poor oral hygiene causing gingivitis' and 'consumption of betel-nut containing products' have been shown to be strongly influenced by the peer group pressures in adolescence [ 31- 33], these findings may be the result of positive peer group norms harnessed by the peer-led strategy in the study under discussion.