Responses on: "How has peer pressure most affected your life?"

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Informant #78881: Trying things i would not have tried before

Informant #78965: Not very much.

Informant #79398: Pushed me to do things I wouldn't have done, life is experience

Informant #79734: It's only made me aware of just how many people are influenced by it and opened my eyes to what a better place we would live in without it.

Informant #79739: I don't think it has. Anything I did I would have done anyway

Informant #79744: luckily i've been able to withstand peer pressure

Informant #79774: Hasn't made any huge differences really.

Informant #79777: It hasn't really. Just did a few things now and then and there's been no backlash

Informant #79792: I don't believe I have ever been 'pressured' into doing anything I wouldn't have done on my own accord.

Informant #79802: Not very much

Informant #79852: bulimia underage drink

Informant #79860: Hasn't affected it that much yet. But I have tried things I probably wouldn't have tried if my friends weren't doing them which have probably damaged me.

Informant #79866: Only in everyday life really... maybe it stops me saying certain things :S

Informant #79867: It has made me a more self concious

Informant #79941: overcoming it made me a stronger person, learning to stand up for myself. but it's set me back too.

Informant #79943: Helped me socialize.

Informant #80379: I constantly wank whilst watching videos of rats mating

Informant #93193: made me do stuff i didnt want to do and making me go against what i believe in

Informant #119577: I would say that I have experienced many things, some related to peer pressure and others not so much. I think it has a positive affect because of the experiences it has given me.

Informant #173033: made me nervous around people distached from social groups until much later on suspicious of peers not comfortable with speaking my mind around my friends and peers

Informant #220821: i have never peer pressured

Informant #223855: the way i handle some of my problems

Informant #226337: Not at all now

Informant #226636: Sometimes it left me with bad feelings, but sometimes I was challenged to solve the problems.

Informant #228265: Peer pressure affected my life by making someone doing something they don't want to do.

Informant #228271: BY TELLING ME WHAT TO DO

Informant #228272: my name devonte yates

Informant #228273: NOT BAD BUT NOT GOOD

Informant #231449: very little

Informant #234244: i don't know

Informant #235173: It makes me think about the things I've done, and the things i SHOULD have done.

Informant #261424: It affected it in positive and negative ways.

Informant #262177: It made me less of a person then I wanted to be

Informant #268127: make me become low self esteem

Informant #268784: I've had a positive experience with it. My own pressures made me into a more social, kind, and open minded individual.

Informant #281419: Peer pressure has never been that bad that its really affected me but i have made decisions i normally wouldnt do.

Informant #283548: It almosy got me killed

Informant #285660: gave me more hobbies

Informant #287795: help me identify meself and group confirmity is also there

Informant #289075: alot of things. most of it has changed my life.

Informant #296359: I made some mistakes

Informant #298490: In a positive way

Informant #300264: By making me think about better decisions in life.

Informant #306581: it was both neg and pos

Informant #307634: I don't know. :))

Informant #308369: it affected me badly..

Informant #312613: in my decision makings

Informant #313520: by making me do things i would not have done

Informant #326183: I have only learned from my mistakes and I don't have any regrets.

Informant #328333: I have experienced peer pressure in various ways throughout my life. Some of which were in good ways, some of which were in bad ways. For those that happened in a bad way, it made me aware that maybe I need to depend on myself to do what I think is right for me, especially if I know better.

Informant #331868: I started smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol at 16.

Informant #332517: It effects my life because if I don't to the house parties and drink then you are not cool. But I stick with my I deals and find other activities to do with my friends.

Informant #336831: well my friends do

Informant #337415: it hasnt really i know my friends still love me. we just get caught up in tough times

Informant #342451: it made me more confident to say no

Informant #363240: I get stressed out a lot by my friends trying to get me to drink

Informant #364259: I never really get pressured. Maybe when I was younger - more naive it did, but not now

Informant #381279: BADLY. So I learned to grow some and find others that could help and learn from experiences.

Informant #383246: not in a good way. not at all. it's made me feel awful about myself.

Informant #384535: It helped me achive goals,sometimes it made me make bad choices,it sometimes just didn't effect me at all

Informant #386192: It has made me get into the non popular group at school

Informant #386299: the choises i made in high school

Informant #387805: peerpreasure has most effected my life in a bad way as an adolesent because i was preasured into drinking, doing drugs and smoking at a young age.

Informant #395045: fashion trends and what I wear

Informant #397530: academic performance

Informant #402821: I've lost too many friends.

Informant #404623: in a positive way

Informant #409719: feeling like i had to prove myself when i was younger

Informant #410558: It hasn't really.

Informant #413222: it has made me realize my strengths and weaknesses.

Informant #415227: it made me get in trouble and do things i am normally not comfortable with

Informant #415228: There wasn't just some huge situation that affected everything. It was mainly a bunch of tiny little things that I was peer pressured into saying that made me lose some important friends.

Informant #415232: it has not affected me

Informant #415234: It has made me a better person. I was always pressured by my teachers to make good choices.

Informant #415235: I havent really been peer pressured but if i was it wouldnt really affect how my life is now

Informant #415236: It hasnt really except my friends sometimes tell me i should study more. Or sometimes my friends have wanted me to buy something i didnt want to buy.

Informant #415237: It got me to join chess club.

Informant #415238: In both a good and a bad way.

Informant #415240: It hasn't really affected me that much.

Informant #415241: I've only been peer pressured once or twice; not much.

Informant #415242: I have done things I shouldn't have but I have never got in trouble for it.

Informant #421577: It tried to influence me to do certain things, but im not easily pressured to dp things i dnt like. they say im stubborn.

Informant #429698: i don't usually give in to it.

Informant #437465: It was bad at first but you learn and realise the mistake afterwards which was a good thing

Informant #461859: I was not pressed much.

Informant #476839: in peer presure i f***ed one girl

Informant #494375: it was normal.never too serious.

Informant #504921: positive way

Informant #513230: it made me a better person.

Informant #521999: studies, parents

Informant #522222: loss of self-confidence

Informant #526016: somehow in a positive way when it comes to study

Informant #533311: ive experienced a lot and learned from it. even though at some point i adopted to certain vices that i shouldnt do just to fit in, but i dont regret it

Informant #534728: good and bad

Informant #534772: it has affected me both ways

Informant #534783: peer pressure let me experienced good and bad things in life. it helps me in social life and embarass me sometimes.

Informant #557012: It affected my academic performance

Informant #561879: It had me do stuff that I didnt know that I can do, and it also has kind of made me a more careful person by trusting others

Informant #561882: it has made me regret mz choices and get slightly angry with myself

Informant #561884: it has not done much to my life but i guess that it has shaped my personality a little bit

Informant #561885: Well it didn't affect me yet but I'm pretty sure when I reach high school I might experience some peer pressure

Informant #561886: not that much

Informant #561888: I have not really got into peer pressure or ever tried to do it.

Informant #565556: Encourage me to think for myself.

Informant #571044: Made me more confident,and stubborn

Informant #582267: When I was younger I wanted to fit in so pressure is there.

Informant #589400: It affected me both positively and negatively.

Informant #589475: I gain more self confidence

Informant #604636: It depends.

Informant #608038: It has affected my life both good and bad. One of my friends peer pressured me into studying and applying for jobs while the other half of friends pressured me to start drinking and trying smoking.

Informant #610049: it affects my study, daily living, and also my decision in life

Informant #612134: It didn't affect me.

Informant #620077: It's caused me to do things I probably would not have done if I hadn't felt the need to impress my new friends when I moved to a new school, and and it did not assist me in the change I went through in 8th grade, when I realized that I was an individual human being, and I could make my own choices without always obliging to other's opinions and listening to whatever they said.

Informant #662842: In a gud way

Informant #681519: It has affected my life negatively mostly.

Informant #699066: in a positive way my friends are in college,this motivate me to same

Informant #715981: negative way

Informant #762063: It affects me in different ways. Like doing something I don't like but the outcome is either positive or negative

Informant #767119: I hasn't to any great degree.

Informant #810915: It affected me in both posiive and negative ways.

Informant #860208: not much, more when I was younger

Informant #885087: both negatively and positively depending on the situation

Informant #902726: BOTH WAYS DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION.

Informant #920844: +ve and -ve both way.

Informant #950668: it shapes your personality in a good or a bad way... good peers make you better persons while bad would do no good to you..

Informant #983549: it has affected some part of it, but luckily im aware of my decisions now

Informant #1372780: no

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