PEER PRESSURE INFLUENCE ON THE ADOLESCENT: THE REQUIRED COMMUNICATION STYLE IN CHARACTER MODELING
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https://doi.org/10.47941/japsy.951Keywords:
Adolescent, character modeling, communication style, peer pressureAbstract
Purpose: This paper intends to help check parent-adolescent conflict, for one peer pressure influence is perhaps hyped at the peak of self-identification.
Methodology: The paper adopted qualitative method, having proposed three polars of character modeling in the adolescent. Thus, the stage of communication, confrontation and conviction. The paper above all is a content analysis and as such employs secondary sources on peer pressure influence and family relations.
Findings: At this stage of development, the stripling is usually in search of meaning and often times he finds such in the company of friends. This forum irrespective of what becomes of the future or the opinion of the parents. It then remains that one way to tame folks at this stage is by employing the right communication style.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: It is then suggested that family counselors and human learning experts advance these styles to further tame teenage violence in home making.
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