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Baliquia, Rodel R.
BS CRIM-1C
December 2019
PEER PRESSURE: NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON THE
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES OF CRIMINOLOGY
STUDENTS
ABSTRACT
Studying is never been easy especially being a college student. Each day,
every student such as Criminology students here in Eastern Samar State University
struggles to pass their subjects and to get good grades at every semester just to be
safe from the elimination of their courses. They encounters in their daily lives different
problems and personal issues that sometimes becomes a hindrance and a barrier to
their study. They face factors such as environmental factors that greatly affect their
academic performances in school, resulting to failure of grades and sometimes
dropping out of school. One type of those environmental factors is what we called ‘’Peer
Pressure.’’
This study aims to find out the negative effects of Peer Pressure to
Criminology students in Eastern Samar State University especially on their performance
in school in terms of academic level.
CHAPTER I
A.INTRODUCTION
According to starlet (2010), “the changing ways of life of our peers often force us
to change our ways of looking at life and leading it.”
Adolescence is a period of an individual that is transitory when a child reaches
the point in changing its childhood to adulthood (Adeniyi & Kolawole, 2015). Thus
individuals are prone to temptations in the social contextualization concepts, for
example, socializing with others tend to do some activities such as napping and drinking
during classes ( Bonein & Denont- Boemont, 2013).
‘’Peer Pressure is one of the powerful forces that influence teenagers Molina,
2017).’’ The closeness between a student and their peers (classmates/friends) has a
negative impact or effect like cutting classes and absenteeism. A negative peer
pressure is a factor in lowest test scores, Johnson (2000). Because of this negative
effect from peer pressure students where encourage or tend to have some bad
behaviour like drinking alcohol, smoking, taking drugs, even delinquency and juvenile
that causes their low academic performances in their class.
Peer pressure does not only affect students study and their academic
performances in school but can also cause emotional and mental health problems like
anxiety and depression.
B.BACKGROUND STUDY
‘’Negative peer pressure is when there are bad things going on and you are being
influenced, persuaded, or pushed into doing something because of peer pressure
(Salinas, 2012)’’
Students experienced Peer pressure as they entered the adolescence stage
where in they seek comfort on their peers (classmates and friends) and tend to do what
their peers are doing without knowing if it is good or bad for them, or they are aware that
it is wrong but they choose to ignore their common sense and own judgement because
they want to be accepted by their peers and they are also afraid of being rejected.
According to some psychologists, rejection from peers is what causes disturbances to a
students personality. It is said that students who suffers from rejection on their
classmates and friends feel lonely and depress especially when no one is talking or
making friends with them. This rejection also results to lower self-esteem to students
that affect their performance in school.
In the Maslow Heirarchy of Needs, belongingness is one of the essential part of
every person’s life. Every individual wants to feel that they belong to a particular group
of people that they like, so they find ways to fit in and be accepted and one of it is
through imitation, or doing the things or activities their peers are doing.
Generally, students spend more time with their classmates and friends and they
are not even aware how their peers affect their behaviour most especially their
academic performances in school.
C.THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
This study/research aims to identify and describe ‘’Peer Pressure’’ as one of the
environmental factor in the studies of Criminology students and it’s negative effect on
their Academic Performances in school.
Figure 1:
Independent variable Dependent variable
Criminology
Peer Pressure students
academic
performances
In this study, researchers are expecting to find explanation and answers to the
following questions :
This study has a purpose to determine the effect (negative effect) of Peer
Pressure on the Criminology students most especially on their academic performances
in school. This study is only delimited to the first year student of BS Criminology in
Eastern Samar State University. Only 20 representatives (students) per class section
take part on the study by answering questions in our survey that was conducted
November 29, 2019 at ESSU campus.
Academic Performance –
Adolescence -
Thank you!