Activities where adolescents experience peer pressure and its relation to the quality of parent-child relationship

Date of Publication

1995

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Abstract/Summary

The study was designed to determine the quality of parent-child relationship that adolescents from low SES and the peer pressure activities that they experienced. Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) was administered to 160 private high school students whose ages range from 15-18 years old in order to determine their quality of parent-child relationship. The subjects were categorized into accepted and rejected. The sample comprises of 56 subjects where 8 Focus Group Discussion Sessions were conducted in drawing out their peer pressure activities. The data of the FGD was content analyzed. It was found out that accepted adolescents experience more peer pressure activities that are self-related while rejected adolescents experienced more peer pressure activities that are leisure activities. But in all four categories (self-related, activities done during family time, school-related and leisure activities), rejected adolescents experienced more peer pressure activities than accepted.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU06803

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

111 leaves ; Computer print-out.

Keywords

Adolescents; Parent and child; Interpersonal relations; Social groups; Conformity

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