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Title: PEER INFLUENCE


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PEER INFLUENCE
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Shoes
  • Please stand up
  • Lets look at our shoes
  • What observation can you make?
  • Do they look equal, same?
  • Now is it possible to reverse them, putting the
    left foot in the right one?

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Definition of peer
  • It is the same thing for people
  • They can be very similar, not only physically but
    sharing common characteristics
  • When it happen with people, we call them peers.
  • That is, two persons sharing common
    characteristics?

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Particularities of peer influence
  • To influence each other, peers will need to
    share common maximum characteristics

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Some common characteristics
Sex
Language
Socio- economic status
Profession
Religion
Peer
Live in the same quater
Have same hobby
Age
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Influence
  • The more the characteristics are common, the
    stronger is the influence
  • That is why some peers can consider themselves to
    be best friends or confidents (because they share
    a lot of common characteristics)
  • For example who is your confident? Why have you
    chosen the person as confident?

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Why is an adolescent attracted by others
  • Because of
  • The desire to conform (be like them)
  • Pressure made by peers (if not, we are no longer
    friends)
  • Mode of acquiring knowledge (they teach what you
    dont know but their teaching may be wrong)
  • Mode of acquiring behaviour (do like them, do
    what they do)
  • A peer is like an example to an adolescent

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Type of influences
  • Positive
  • Negative

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Positive influence of peers
  • Peers as educational models
  • Sharing of information
  • Similar problems
  • Facility to confide to the peer
  • Age mate relationship
  • Peer as reference
  • The feeling of being understood and accepted
  • Confidential relationship
  • Model of identification
  • Construction of a personal identity

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Negative influence of Peers
  • The desire of conformity
  • Adoption of similar behaviour
  • - Same dressing attitudes
  • - Same conviction
  • Could be excluded from the group
  • - Accommodation
  • - Incapable of affirming
  • Pressure from peers
  • - The desire of imposing
  • - Blackmailing implied
  • - The fear of dislocation

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Why would an adolescent easily be influenced?
  • Because he/she is facing difficulties or
    problems either in his
  • Family or
  • Social environment

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Types of difficulties in the family environment?
  • Marital conflicts
  • Physical or moral abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Parents being indifferent
  • Lack of maturity of mothers (e.g. Teen mother)
  • Difficulty or lack of communication
  • Lack of understanding
  • Lack of affection
  • Negligence by parents
  • Rejection or abandonment
  • Excessive or relenting control by parents
  • Tolerated Prostitution of adolescent

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Types of difficulties in the social environment
  • Bad company
  • Dangerous environment
  • Promiscuity
  • Pollution (dirty, noise)
  • Tendency to tell lie
  • Giving value to bad behavior (feymania)
  • Considering stealing as normal
  • Taking corruption as natural

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How to help an adolescent resist peer influences?
  • Be yourself a role model
  • Teach acceptance and self respect
  • Put to value the capacity of adolescents

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How to help an adolescent in difficulty?
  • Show him your availability to listen to him
    actively
  • Recognise the legitimacy of her/his
    preoccupations
  • Avoid judging him
  • Do not minimise their difficulties
  • Favour autonomy while respecting their limits and
    the capacities of adolescents
  • Give them good information
  • Help them in evaluating their situation

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  • Thank you for your attention
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