POSITIVE PEER PRESSURE AND RESPONSIBILITY BEHAVIOUR OF ADOLESCENTS
Abstract
- The main aim of this research was to study the positive peer pressure and responsibility behaviour of adolescents. This study was conducted with the specific objectives to find out the differences in positive peer pressure and responsibility behaviour of adolescents by gender, subject-combination, and school locality. A total of Grade 10 students (415 males and 435 females) from five selected schools in Aunglan Township were participated in this study. Descriptive research design and survey method were used in this study. To measure positive peer pressure, the Peer Pressure Inventory (PPI) by Temesgen (2015) was used. And to measure responsibility behaviour, the Responsibility Behaviour Scale (RBS) developed by Emana (2005) was used and it consists of three components: personal responsibility, peer responsibility and community responsibility. Chronbach alpha value for positive peer pressure questionnaire was 0.853 and that of responsibility behaviour questionnaire was 0.845. Descriptive statistics, independent samples t test, One-way ANOVA analysis and Pearson Product Moment Correlation have been used to analyze the data. The results demonstrated that there were significant differences in positive peer pressure by gender and subject combination. Female adolescents had higher positive peer pressure than male adolescents. Combination 1 students experienced higher positive peer pressure than Combination 7 students. However, there were no significant differences in positive peer pressure by school locality. Also, there was a significant difference in responsibility behaviour by gender and female adolescents showed more responsibility behaviour than male adolescents. Moreover, there were no significant differences in responsibility behaviour by subject combination, and school locality. The result of correlation analyses revealed that there was a significant positive relationship (r= 0.299, p<.001) between positive peer pressure and responsibility behaviour of adolescents.
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Year
- 2021
Author
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Myo Su Mon Kyaw
Subject
- Educational Psychology
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)