Peer pressure is often painted as a teenage problem, but the truth is it follows us through different stages of life. From deciding which stream to choose till where to take admission after school, to ...

Peer Pressure refers to the influence exerted by a person’s peer or people of similar age, states or interests, to adopt certain behaviours, attitude or values. This influence can be direct or ...

BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if I can decompress some of their concerns and provide some information ...

Teens often feel pressured to excel. The desire to achieve high grades in school, play well on the field, or have the perfect social life. The stress for success can leave students overwhelmed. Other ...

While 'peer pressure' is often linked to experiences of children or teenagers, researchers say young adults continue to succumb to similar pressures of social conformity in everyday situations. The ...

Social pressure during adolescence, a stage in which children begin to yearn for acceptance and to feel part of a group, is a cause of cyberbullying, as a series of self-justifications lead those who ...

When I was a child, one of the things that upset me the most was watching friends be mean to other kids—whether it was a classmate they didn’t like or someone who was just going about their day being ...

When we talk about peer pressure, we often think of teenagers pressuring each other to make bad choices. But adults can also deal with peer pressure, especially when it comes to drinking. Summer is a ...

Jennifer Rauhause has spent decades working with youth who are going through some of the darkest moments of their lives. Before moving to Phoenix in the late 1980s, she worked at a treatment center in ...