Peer Pressure Reports Samples For Students

Introduction

My personal experience back in college as a young adult can be described as wild and care free. I was the captain of my college football team and this made me very popular. I was expected to constantly remain physically fit in order to lead my team to victory and simultaneously achieve good academic performance. However, there was nobody to stop my newly-acquired status as a free individual. I recall the frequent drinking sprees with my friends. These were of course accompanied by cases of rowdiness and restlessness. In other words, I had a high affinity to disrupt the peace. However, I ...

My choice of the adolescent risk-taking behaviors are; Obesity attributed by eating disorders, and Illegal drugs. In the case of obesity, and more so on eating disorder has the following as the influencing factors. They are; physiological factors such as, low self esteem and depression, from interpersonal factors such as, history of either ridicule or sexual abuse, and lastly, from social factors such as cultural norms. In the case of Illegal drug use, the influencing factors are; peer pressure, teen getting thrilled to do something illegal and lastly, escape the pressure or simply aversive feeling .
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Introduction

Nancy J. Cobb in the book, ‘continuity, change and diversity’ focuses on adolescence and the biological as well as psychological changes from childhood to adulthood. Everybody in life undergoes this life before attaining adulthood, it is associated with rebelling and peer pressure. In boys, it is normally expected to start at the age of 13-19 while in girls it may start at an early age of 9-19. During this period, some of the issues that may arise are self-independent, sexuality, in this book, Nancy discusses about Neuroendocrine System, and these are biological changes that regulate hormones that bring changes ...

General and specific deterrence
Crimes committed by juveniles raise many concerns because if a child is able to commit a crime at an early age, then it is quite likely for the child to commit even serious crimes in adulthood. Studies have shown that juvenile criminals end up becoming criminals in their later stage in life. This has created the need to deter children and young adults from committing crimes in their adulthood. There are two main methods used to prevent people from committing crimes. They include general or indirect deterrence and specific deterrence. The concept of deterrence is based ...

Beats Audio Consumer behavior report

Situational analysis
This paper gives clear explanations of the processes of decision-making, the internal and external factors that influence purchase of headphones and earphones from Beats Audio. Earphones and headphones are the main products of Beats audio and the managing director needs to know everything about the company from the influence to target market. (Loudon, 2008)

Earphones main use is listening to music and closely related to headphones, which has the same purpose. Prices depend on the material used and the quality since the target groups prefer them in different colors and textures. The main information that the ...