Peer Pressure among Undergraduate Students: A Study on Tezpur University

Abstract

India is a country having a largest youth population. According to census 2011 data around 41% of India’s population is below the age of 20 years. During adolescence period most of the peoples are influenced by their peers. This influence can be in terms of attitude, values, behavior, decision regarding clothing, music, fashion, food habit etc. In some of the cases high influence of peer pressure can also be seen which had a very awful and long lasting effect on the person. Some issues like drug abuse, drinking alcohol, smoking, depression, mental illness,drop out, suicide etc are found among the students and peer pressure is one of the major causes behind this problems or issues.In spite of these,peer pressure also influence on the academic achievement of the students. In this paper we have studied the level of peer pressure among the students as well as peer pressure on the basis of gender. For the study researcher has taken 120 students of Tezpur University (2^nd semester) from the school of Humanities, Sciences, Management and engineering as a sample. Standardized tool has been used for data collection. This paper is helpful for the teacher as well as the parents in handling their child during adolescence period.