Students’ mental health risks regarding susceptibility to peer pressure (CROSBI ID 297399)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Kudek Mirošević, Jasna ; Radetić-Paić, Mirjana ; Prskalo, Ivan
engleski
Students’ mental health risks regarding susceptibility to peer pressure
Given that adolescents and young people spend most of their time in the educational system, advancements in neurodevelopmental research emphasize the important and complex role of peers’ influence on adolescents’ behaviour, suggesting that supportive programmes led by peers have a strong potential benefit (King, & Fazel, 2019). In many cases peers are the most important source of social support, and are therefore an important target group to investigate the factors of risk, signs of poor mental health and ways to assess their health behaviour and awareness of the care which should be taken regarding their mental health, as well as the resources and prevention models. The wish is to study whether there are differences regarding the mental behaviour in certain characteristics of susceptibility to peer pressure as a risk for the mental health of students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula and students of the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb, Division of Petrinja (N=440). The set hypothesis states that there is a statistically significant difference among students of the faculty in Pula and those in Petrinja in their assessment of certain features of peer pressure susceptibility as a possible risk for mental health. The results obtained at the x2-test showed a statistically significant difference between certain peer pressure features among students regarding their study environment linked to hanging out with peers who consume drugs and being tempted to try them, getting involved in risky behaviours if their peers ask them to, and betting or gambling because their friends also do that. The results indicate that in smaller communities social control and conformity in the students’ behaviour is more present due to their wish to fit in a peer group as well as possible, suggesting the need for strengthening the positive health behaviour of young people during their whole education in order to secure a healthy and productive adult population.
healthy lifestyle ; mental health ; peer pressure ; socialisation ; students
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Podaci o izdanju
15 (1)
2021.
60-67
objavljeno
1840-2976
1840-3700
10.51371/issn.1840-2976.2021.15.1.7
Povezanost rada
Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijske znanosti, Kineziologija