Negative Essay : Causes And Effects Of Teen Pressure

I sat in calculus class waiting impatiently for the teacher to pass back my exam. I look at the grade and then instinctively look behind me. My best friend, Sam, looked rather pleased; she understood this math lesson, and her grade reflected it. ‘One down one to go,’ I thought as I looked to my back left. My other best friend, Lettie, looked confused. I asked her what she got and she said a grade that was lower than mine. I grabbed her paper in disbelief. I compared the grades, and my grade was in fact a point higher. Lettie tried to shrug it off. She said that she just didn’t get it, or that she didn’t care about this little exam, because there were far more important assignments in her life at the time. The excuses were always

In recent discussion, many Americans have been aware of teen stress. According to the New York post, millennials spend about 63 days of the year stressed out and worried, according to new research. That's nearly 20 percent of teens in America. High school is the biggest cause of teen stress coming from a teenager herself. Although I concede that that the best way to cope with teen stress is interacting with certain healthy activities, I still insist the best way for teens to cope with stress is dependent on the teens interest with any activity, that can be considered healthy or not to others. There are known to be many ways Teens can handle stress, the problem is what can be considered the “best” way. How we should not enforce the same coping methods on every teen due to consider every person is different, and can potentially hurt more than help.

Teenagers tend to have an idol as an example to follow, mainly models or musicians. They self-monitorate and compare themselves to their idols and to others who may be extremely and unhealthy thin. Nowadays we live in a society which sostain the idea that happiness and success are related to skinny people and to beauty and that fatness and people

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), conducted a survey analyzing the risk behaviors among teens. According to the survey, peer pressure is directly responsible for an increase in risky behavior – things like cigarette smoking, drinking alcohol and having sex – among teens (Statistics on Peer Pressure).

Having this unnecessary amount of pressure to have perfect bodies can affect people negatively in a health-related way. One example that supports this is that girls can gain eating disorders. In an attempt to not gain any weight, young women can develop eating disorders called anorexia nervosa (restricting their food intake and becoming afraid of food in fear of gaining weight). Anorexia nervosa affects nearly 75% of females. Bulimia Nervosa, more commonly known as “binge and purge” is also seen in females (Moreau). This is important because the pressure at home and from society can cause girls to feel as though they need to change when in actuality they are perfect. Another example that shows that girls can develop health problems because

"just one isn't going to hurt" they say or "stay out of the circle if you aren't going to smoke" are just a couple things you hear as a teen on one occasion or another. now looking on the situation from a outsider standpoint it is easy to see the right path and say no or get yourself out of there. although when you are standing in the middle of it is a so much easier to give into the invatation of your friends. just to fit in and do what you see everyone else doing because they are fine and why would your friends ever steer you

Starting at a young age girls are already being pressured to be "perfect", the models ,the magazine covers, all reveal a completely impossible body image. Not because their parents may have had what some people call good genes... No, it’s the photo shop and all the editing and weight lose that sometimes they have to lose just to get a certain role. They are not happy with it. They look nothing like they do in photos or movies or magazines but that’s not what society sees and that’s why people feel the need to be perfect and no flaws whatsoever, they feel if they don’t look a certain way the guys wont take the time to look their direction that no one would like them that’s where the depression and self harm comes into play and that’s the sad part of it. Middle school is where we see it start more than often, people are just now trying to figure out who they want to be, how they want to dress and act.

"People! Come on! All of us are cutting history. Who wants to go take that stupid exam? We're going to BreadSticks instead. Let's go!" says the coolest kid in your class. Do you do what you know is right and go take the history exam? Or do you give in and go with the crowd? As you grow older, you'll be faced with some challenging decisions. Some don't have a clear right or wrong answer - should you practice the piano or text your girlfriend? Other decisions involve serious moral questions - should you cut class, should you lie to your parents? Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and pressure you to make a certain

Growing up surrounded by media brings pressure to teenage girls to have what society defines as the ideal body. As a teenager one wants to fit in with the most popular group. Recent movies like “Mean girls” and “16 wishes” have shown the role of the popular girl to be thin, beautiful, and smart. As a media consumer, females assume that if they achieve this look they will become popular as well. Many teenagers go through stressing situations in order to accomplish the ideal body image. For instance, many teenagers develop eating disorders or go through plastic surgery. Today in social media, we see celebrities going through dramatic changes; like lip injections, face thinning, hair/eyelash extensions, tummy tucks, breast enlargement, etc. Now everyone uses social media in order to see each other’s life, and one tends to follow their favorite celebrities. By following these celebrities, one sees their changes and wants to go through the same procedures in order to fit in to what society defines beautiful. Teenage girls are pressured from the media to have the “ideal body.”

This image may be thin, muscular, or just average. During adolescence, they may feel unsatisfied with their bodies and want to change how they look just to fit in. This gives adolescence a feeling that they belong, and peer influences help the adolescence grow as an individual, by getting insight and advice from those who know. During this time, adolescents are going to start looking up to a number of people, namely celebrities, and try to adopt their style as their own in hopes of being able to fit in (Cheathouse, Sept., 2004). Adolescent girls need someone to look up to, and if they look up to celebrities and want to be like them, they may do anything to achieve the same look (Botta, 1999). Besides the idea of finding ones' identity and fitting in, many of these conflicts lead to inappropriate behavior such as sneaking out, drinking, drugs, pre-marital sex, and the worst one of all, pregnancy (Bruin).

Most teens today aren't getting the required 8-10 hours of sleep because of schools starting the day before 8 a.m. Teens brains don’t wake up until 8 a.m. which is becoming detrimental to them learning new material. Their brains won’t remember most of what the teachers are teaching them because they’re not awake. According to the National Sleep Foundation, “Teens average fewer than 7 hours per school night by the end of high school, and most report feeling tired during the day.” If the school start times were to be later, teens would be getting a better night’s rest and the required amount of sleep for them to function throughout the school day.

Teen stress is a big issue in today's society. Recent studies have shown that teens may develop more stress then adults. Few adults can remember the truth about adolescence. "Their minds "censor" their memories, and have them believe that being a teenager was was one big party, free of cares and responsibilities"( ). There aren't that many adults around who realize what adolescence was really like. The anguish, the fear, the anxiety, the stress. People don't remember those problems because they want to forget them. Stress is a significant problem for teens. There are many factors that lead into teen stress, such as school, drugs, peer pressure and

For some teens, striving for perfection has led to harming their own health and wellbeing such as living with depression and suicide. Teenagers today are relying on what they see in ads, T.V., magazines and on the internet for their input on appearances, the way they think not only comes from media sources, but from family and friends.

Many people in high school, mostly teens, experience dozens of pressure in their life. To be specific, Schoolwork. Most teens want to excel in school, but want to have a social life or play some kind of sport. One thing that teens don’t understand is that once you’re out of high school, you have college, and then maybe graduate school. Our education will not be over just in High School. You have to work hard and these four years of your life, will impact everything that you do. If you mess up even once, it may ruin everything. This article is named, “Teens Biggest Stress? School.” It has been featured on MSNBC.com. It is written by, “The Associated Press”. It explains how 13-17 years old have the most stress in their high school life.

Peers are equal in abilities, age, background and even social stature. Peer Pressure is society pressuring a member of a peer group to undertake certain actions, adapt values, and do what they believe will allow them to be accepted into such a group. In the Bible, the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the New Testament provides examples of Peer Pressure. The ability to either fall into or steer-clear of peer pressure is through the virtues of courage, temperance and prudence. We are followers of Jesus Christ and we are not the same humans that once roamed the earth. We are should be more confident in ourselves and our actions than relying on others to tell/show us what is ‘acceptable’ or not. The Bible gives us examples regarding peer