What is a peer group?
A peer group is conceived as a small group of similarly aged, fairly close friends, sharing the same activities. Adolescents spend much of their time in these groups. According to Bradford Brown (1990), high school students spend twice as much of their time with peers as with parents or other adults.
What is the importance of peer groups during adolescence?
The role played by peers in adolescence is very critical. Relationships with peers during the adolescent years come closer to serving as prototypes for adult relationships in social relationships, in work and in interactions with members of the opposite sex. Teenagers who do not learn how to get along with others by the time they reach adulthood are likely to face obstacles in years ahead. The role of the peer group in helping an individual to define his or her own identity becomes very important during adolescence. At no other stage of development is one's sense of identity so unstable.
What do peer groups provide for adolescents?
-the opportunity to learn how to interact with others
-support in defining identity, interests, abilities and personality
-autonomy without the control of adults and parents
-opportunities for witnessing the strategies others use to cope with similar problems, and for observing how effective they are
-instrumental and emotional support
-building and maintaining friendships
What are the factors that contribute to the formation of peer groups?
One of the most important aspects of adolescents' lives are their close ties with their peers. Although peer groups are important at all ages, it is not until mid or late adolescence that friendship takes the role of intimate relationships. These peer groups are characterized by trust, self disclosure and loyalty. One major factor at work during adolescent development is that they are showing autonomy, or a sense of being a separate person. Another factor is the cognitive changes that enables adolescents to see situations from another person's point of view. As a result of these developments, individuals experience a greater need for intimacy and an increased capacity to enter close relationships or peer groups
Dina Castrogiovanni
A peer group is conceived as a small group of similarly aged, fairly close friends, sharing the same activities. Adolescents spend much of their time in these groups. According to Bradford Brown (1990), high school students spend twice as much of their time with peers as with parents or other adults.
What is the importance of peer groups during adolescence?
The role played by peers in adolescence is very critical. Relationships with peers during the adolescent years come closer to serving as prototypes for adult relationships in social relationships, in work and in interactions with members of the opposite sex. Teenagers who do not learn how to get along with others by the time they reach adulthood are likely to face obstacles in years ahead. The role of the peer group in helping an individual to define his or her own identity becomes very important during adolescence. At no other stage of development is one's sense of identity so unstable.
What do peer groups provide for adolescents?
-the opportunity to learn how to interact with others
-support in defining identity, interests, abilities and personality
-autonomy without the control of adults and parents
-opportunities for witnessing the strategies others use to cope with similar problems, and for observing how effective they are
-instrumental and emotional support
-building and maintaining friendships
What are the factors that contribute to the formation of peer groups?
One of the most important aspects of adolescents' lives are their close ties with their peers. Although peer groups are important at all ages, it is not until mid or late adolescence that friendship takes the role of intimate relationships. These peer groups are characterized by trust, self disclosure and loyalty. One major factor at work during adolescent development is that they are showing autonomy, or a sense of being a separate person. Another factor is the cognitive changes that enables adolescents to see situations from another person's point of view. As a result of these developments, individuals experience a greater need for intimacy and an increased capacity to enter close relationships or peer groups
Dina Castrogiovanni
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