Types of Examples Advantages Disadvantage

Group
1. Primary  family, friends, and love one's. 1.Will support, 1.Theres a
take care and possibility that
love you long your friends can
lasting. influence you a
2.Fulfills negative
different decisions or
psychological actions.
needs of an
individual such 2.It's hard to
as feelings, deal with their
emotions, and attitude specially
cooperation. for those toxic
3.Primary people around
groups are of us.
great individual
as well as social
importance.
They are
medium through
which we learn
our culture.
They prepare
the individuals
and give proper
shape to our
personality.
4.They are
meant to take
good care of us
even in difficult
situations.
2. Secondary  Schoolmates, church group, 1.Will get work 1.You don't get
social organizations and immediately and along well with
colleagues. efficiently. them.
2.They can be
more 2.Members may
productive. conform to
3.Provides majority option.
better
opportunities for
the members to
develop their 3.Weak
 talents. emotional ties
and little
4.A formal personal
authority is set knowledge of
up and a set of one another.
rules are
formulated to
manage ang
regulate the
secondary
group.

3. In-group  sport teams, labor unions, 1.Reliable, 1.We can

sororities or fraternity. loyalty, and encounter
respect is well scheduling
established. conflicts.
2.Have a
confidence to 2.We can
share our encounter some
feelings, problems with
thoughts and them.
ideas. 3.If of us make
3.We can solve a mistake it will
problem or affect all
difficult task members.
easier with
them. 4.Decision
4.We can know making skills
what are our takes time and
strengths and unequal.
weaknesses.

4. Out-group  Sororities, sport teams, and 1.We can build 1.There's no

unions. self- unity
development.
2.Self- 2.You can feel
supporting and that you're
we can work alone.
alone.
3.One will be 3.No one can
self- help us.
independent.
4.Self-love and
away from toxic
 people.

5. Reference parents,teachers,siblings,peers 1.Guide us to 1.Lowers one's

Group and neighbors. our behavioral, self-esteem.
attitudes, and
moods. 2.They can
2.They can affect our
share resources, lifestyle.
synergy and
exposure. 3.Comparing self
3.It is important and lack of
for determining confidence.
a person’s self-
identity.