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Influence Of Peer Pressure And Time Management On Academic Performance Of In-school Adolescents
[A CASE STUDY OF OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, BENIN CITY]
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A peer can be anyone you look up to or someone who
you would think is an equal in age or ability. A peer could be a friend,
someone in the community or even someone on television (Hardcastle,
2002). Adolescence is associated with peer pressure. Peer pressure may
play a key role in academic success. This may be true because when an
in-school adolescent experiences a negative peer pressure, there may be
the tendency of loosing the sense of knowing why he/she is in school and
when such happens, it will surely affect his/her academic performance.
According to Kirk, (2000), academics recognize that a child’s peer can
have an impact on achievement, but the extent of that effect has been an
open question with no conclusive answer.
Peer pressure means the
influences that people of the same rank or age have on each other.
Again, peer pressure is emotional or mental force from people belonging
to the same social group (such as same age, grade or status) to act or
behave in a manner similar to themselves (www.nation/tcc.org/tcc/). Peer
pressure has a great influence on adolescent behaviour and reflects
young people’s desire to fit in and be accepted by others. One can say
that peer pressure is emotional feeling from people of the same age,
grade or status to do things in a manner similar to themselves
(www.rho.org/htm/glossary.html).
Peer pressure comprises a set of
group dynamics whereby a group in which one feels comfortable may
override personal habits, individual moral inhibitions or idiosyncratic
desires to impose a group norm of attitudes and/ or behaviours. One may
be right to say that peer pressure is the emotional force people of the
same social group receive through imposing of the groups’ norm of
attitude or behaviours.
Peer pressure may be a positive influence and
help to challenge or motivate one to do his/her best. When an in-school
adolescent who performs poorly in his/her academic activities joins
peers who do group study and read very well comes out with a good
academic performance, such peer may have positive effect on his members
and such is a good peer pressure. Peer pressure may also result in one
doing things that may not fit with ones sense of what is right and
wrong. In other words, when peer pressure makes one do things that
people frown at, we call such a negative peer pressure. Peer pressure
may influence one in various ways like joining group who take alcohol
and other drugs. It may also lead to the decision to have a
boyfriend/girlfriend, joining a group whose members are crazy about what
they wear and loitering about. There is evidence of peer pressure among
students in Delta State. As it is usually, in – school adolescents
could seen by passer by moving about in the streets, watching films and
attending parties during school hours. Among in-school peers, it has
also been observed that either for answering or asking questions,
students are ridiculed by others. When such happens, it inflicts
depression into the adolescent and such may influence his/her academic
performance. Peer pressure may be present in the work place, at school
or within the society. It can affect people of all ages and general
community. It may affect people in different ways but here, we are
concerned with peer pressure as it influences academic performance of
in-school adolescents. In order to achieve peer cleavage, adolescents
engage in loitering and truancy during school hours and this does not
help in school success. Furthermore, the urge to do other bad acts like
drinking alcohol and smoking cigarette are capable of eliciting pressure
in adolescents, which have impact on their school achievement. There is
on going debate that in-school adolescents with negative peer pressure
may perform poorly academically while those with positive peer pressure
may have enhance academic performance. However, the true position will
be elicited by this work.
According to Lakein (2003) concerning
adolescents is the issue of how they manage their time. It is important
to get to know yourself so that you can make good decisions about what
you want to do and how to use your time well to achieve it. We all have
168hrs in a week to use as we wish; however, it appears that some people
make better use of this time than others. This implies that those who
manage their time well do so in order to achieve the set goal while
there is a tendency or possibility of those who can not manage their
time not to succeed in their set goal (Lakein, 2003). However, this
research work will provide an answer as to show the extent the ability
to manage time or not is dependent on peer pressure.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was carried out to examine the influence of peer pressure and time management on academic performance of in-school adolescents in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City. Specifically, the study determined the extent peer pressure influences academic performance of in-school adolescents in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City and, examined the extent time management influences academic performance of in-school adolescents in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City. The study employ ... Continue reading---
