Bullying And Peer Pressure

Everyone in their life experience peer pressure which can be both positive and negative. But students are more vulnerable to it as they get easily influenced by their peers . As students get exposed to outer world their curiosity about things around them also increases .they have an innate need to try new things with their peers but due to their lack of experience and insight they lack knowledge about the consequences of their actions.

Students are influenced more by their peers actions, things they have , ideas and opinions. These
peers can be friends of students or other students of the same age with similar interests. These peers can influence students directly or indirectly and can make them act in a certain way.
Students try confirming the ideas, opinions, and behaviors of their peers to fit in with them while disregarding their own opinions and values. This need to confirm with others to fit in with them
while disregarding their own personal opinions and ideas is called peer pressure. An example of peer pressure can be a student who doesn’t want to participate dance competition, but she participates on the persuasion of her / his friend. As students are in a learning stage of their life
where they learn to socially interact with others to gain more knowledge and information about the world, they get easily influenced by their peers. This influence of peers on students can be
both positive and negative .


Bullying is a distinctive pattern of repeatedly and deliberately harming and humiliating others, specifically those who are smaller, weaker, younger or in any way more vulnerable than the bully. The deliberate targeting of those of lesser power is what distinguishes bullying from garden-variety aggression.

Bullying can involve verbal attacks (name-calling and making fun of others) as well as physical ones, threats of harm, other forms of intimidation, and deliberate exclusion from activities. Studies indicate that bullying peaks around ages 11 to 13 and decreases as children grow older. Overt physical aggression such as kicking, hitting, and shoving is most common among younger children; relational aggression—damaging or manipulating the relationships of others, such as spreading rumors, and social exclusion—is more common as children mature.