Peer Pressure

Jared Wilkes
Mrs. McCammon
Research Paper
20 December 2002
Pressure too Hard to Handle
Adolescents are faced daily with pressures that can indefinitely effect their adult lives. They have pressure from their lives at home, school, and especially their peers. These pressures can lead to stress created by negative and positive peer pressure, affecting the growth of adolescents in certain areas before reaching adulthood.
Adolescents have many life altering changes that they encounter. One of the first changes they go through is puberty. Puberty is characterized by the attainment of biological sexual maturity (“Dvp Psy Tdy” 328). In other word they reach sexual maturity. This includes their physical development. Every adolescent goes through bodily changes. Growth occurs, body composition begins to change, and sexual characteristics develop during their physical development. This change introduces the adolescent to a whole new world.
Adolescents in today’s world are c...