Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills

Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills 5.3

What is Peer Pressure? • Can peer pressure be positive and negative?

Teens look to members of their peer group for acceptance(fit in) • Peer Pressure can influence your decisions positively or negatively • Making fun of others, you might hang out with a group of girls who only talk gossip and make fun of others

Peer Pressure • Direct Peer Pressure: Form of words or actions directed toward you • Indirect Peer Pressure: you notice many people at our school wearing a specific shoe style. You want to go out and buy those shoes

Positive Peer Pressure • Can inspire you to be the best person you can be. • When sally saw the news of Katrina Hurricane she took into action raising money from her neighborhood. She asked friends, neighbors, relatives

Negative Peer Pressure • Peer Pressure is pressure to do something that could hurt you or others, or get you into trouble. • Stephanie laughed when other girls were making fun of Jasmine. • Teens who put negative pressure on you may try to manipulate your emotions or find your weaknesses.

Recognizing Negative peer Pressure

Refusal skills: communication strategies that help you say no effectively • Strategy for refusing • Say no in a firm voice • Tell why not • Offer other ideas • Promptly leave

Styles of communication • Aggressive: speaking in a way that is overly forceful, pushy, hostile, or otherwise attacking in approach • Passive: tendency to give up, give in, or back down without standing up for your rights and needs • Assertive: behaving with confidence and clearly stating your intentions

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Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills