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The Relationships between Positive Peer Pressure and Self-Esteem and Various Risk-Taking Behaviors of Adolescents

TIAN Lumei, XIA Dayong, LI Yongmei, SHAN Nan, LIU Xiang   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • Online:2016-05-15 Published:2016-05-15

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Abstract: Based on problem-behavior theory, the present study carried out a series of questionnaires answered by 689 teenager students in a general high school and a secondary vocational school in order to explore the relationships between positive peer pressure and self-esteem and various risk-taking behaviors of adolescents, and their differences between schools as well. As the results showed, 1) compared with high school students, adolescents of the secondary vocational school perceived more positive peer pressure and reported more risk-taking behaviors; 2) the relationship between positive peer pressure and maladaptive risk-taking behaviors of adolescents was not obvious in either school, whereas the association of positive peer pressure with socially acceptable risk-taking behaviors was positive and significant among high school students; 3) adolescents' self-esteem was negatively associated with their maladaptive risk-taking behaviors in either school significantly, while it was obviously only positively linked to socially acceptable risk-taking behaviors among high school students; 4) self-esteem only strengthened the relationship between high school students' positive peer pressure and their socially acceptable risk-taking behaviors in that high self-esteem increased the socially acceptable behaviors among high positive peer pressure students; but it couldn't moderate the relationship between adolescents' positive peer pressure and maladaptive risk-raking behavior in either school.

Key words: positive peer pressure, self-esteem, risk-taking behaviors, adolescent

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