Lives of Adolescents and Peer Influences
Explain the role that peers play in the lives of adolescents; highlight both positive and negative peer influences. Pull examples from your childhood to illustrate your points. Stronger friendships may provide adolescents with an appropriate environment to development in a healthy way and to achieve good academic results. This influence is essential for adolescents’ development up to adulthood. Parental monitoring can be defined as parents’ knowledge about their children’s activities, who they hang out with and what they do. It has been associated to protection of various risk behaviours throughout adolescence, such as substance use or sexual behaviours.
