We’ve all heard the saying “If you show me who your friends are, I can tell you who you are.” When we think of peer pressure, we often think of negative peer pressure, such as convincing a friend to ...

BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if I can decompress some of their concerns and provide some information ...

The most influential people in an adolescent’s life are, you guessed it, other adolescents. For many adolescents, the pandemic significantly disrupted an essential stage in their development — ...

"My buddies got me into drugs; all my friends are doing it." We hear about peer pressure from juvenile defendants and their families. If it hadn't been for his friends, a mother will contend, Ed would ...

The teenage years are a complex interplay of parental guidance and peer influence. Parents establish the bedrock of values and support, but as adolescents seek autonomy, their friends play an ...

Analysis by a team from Drexel University found that firefighters may shun safety gear due to the pressure of living up to their risk-taker image. Jennifer Taylor, PhD, associate professor in Drexel’s ...