0 the strong influence of a group, especially of children, on members of that group to behave as everyone else does: --
There is tremendous peer pressure to wear fashionable clothes.
1 the pressure that you feel to behave in a certain way because your friends or people in your group expect it: --
There is tremendous peer pressure among teenagers to dress a certain way.
2 → peer group pressure --
In addition, the emotional risk group reported the most negative peer pressure, and the behavioral risk group reported a greater tendency than most other youth to make decisions by themselves.
Both models contained as predictors the measures of negative relations and support from both parents and friends, youths' numbers of broken intimate relationships, and perceived level of peer pressure.
It was impossible for them to ignore the peer pressure of the more visibly devout who insisted on praying in class.
Yet we tend to defend what we received, following habit, group loyalty, and peer pressure.
A commitment to different peer groups leads to different types of peer pressure and motivation, which shape language use.
This peer pressure may be translated to the parents, who may buy the child the appropriate "designer labeled" item.
Perceptions of peer pressure, peer conformity dispositions, and self-reported behavior among adolescents.
They are often encumbered by external constraints in the form of peer pressure, poverty, and impairing social circumstances.
