2. Scenario 1
● You are wearing plain clothes, but
pleasantly & neatly dressed, and going to
a party. Before entering the hall, you see
that most people are wearing
expensive/stylish clothes. What would
you do?
Option 1: Leave the place before anyone
notices you & hurry to dress up for the
occasion?
●Option 2: Walk in as usual without a
concern?
●Option 3: Walk in a bit embarrassed?
3. ● Are YOU, YOURSELF or your clothes?
● Should clothes define your identity? Would you let clothes/ other objects
define you?
● Are clothes an important part of YOU?
● Does how others look at you matter? Does it define you?
4. Let us reverse the situation presented
● If you are wearing branded clothes and others are wearing plain clothes,
would you look down on them? Would that make you feel superior?
● If others wear western branded clothes or a coat and a suit and if you wear
traditional clothes, what would be your reaction?
5. Scenario 2
●Your friends are using valuable/costly
gadgets like mobile, laptop etc. which your
family cannot afford for you.
1.Would you feel Internal Pressure that you
don’t match them?
2. Would you hesitate to make friendship
and behave normally with them?
Reverse scenario:
● If your classmates did not have expensive
gadgets, while you have, will you look
down on them? Think of them as slightly
lower than your level?
6. Who is a peer?
What kinds of pressures do you face from your peers?
● Peers influence your life, even if you don’t realize it, just by spending time with
your peer group. You learn from them, and they learn from you.
● Peers play a large role in the social and emotional development of children and
adolescents. Their influence begins at an early age and increases through the
teenage years...it is more strongly felt during late school and college days..
● Responding to peer pressure is part of human nature ..
● Some of us people are more likely to give in ..yield to peer pressure , while
others are better able to resist and stand their ground and resist pp.
● Peer pressure is NOT always Negative. But the goal is to be self organized
7. Peers and peer pressure
Peer: Someone in your own age group.
Peer group: Persons of equal rank / quality/ worth
Pressure: Pressure is the Feeling that you are being pushed toward
making a certain choice – good or bad.
9. Why do I feel peer pressure?
●Weak personality
●Fear of being rejected
●Social acceptance.
●Avoid bullying
●Want to be liked
●Hormonal reasons
●Bad parenting
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