While college is a time for learning, for new experiences and self-discovery for students, it can also be a time for anxiety, stress and depression, leading on rare occasions to students trying to hurt themselves. Stress and depression stem from the pressures of competing at too early an age...
The Peer Group Connection (PGC) is a primary prevention program that enlists the power of peer influence to help teenagers cope with the universal, everyday problems and pressures of becoming adults. It addresses important transitions in young people's lives by building into schools an important ...
8-11 While social pressures to conform make adolescents adopt the behaviors of their peers (via peer influence), adolescents also seek out like-minded friends who share their own attitudes (via peer selection). To disentangle the effects of peer influence and selection, longitudinal studies are ...
The Peer Group Connection (PGC) is a primary prevention program that enlists the power of peer influence to help teenagers cope with the universal, everyday problems and pressures of becoming adults. It addresses important transitions in young people's lives by building into schools an important ...