Peer Pressure Quiz

A peer group can encourage you to do good things like help others, try new things, or just kick back. Who doesn’t love an afternoon of pizza and hanging out with pals? But your peers can just as easily try to make you do things that you would never normally do and could potentially harm you. What can you do?

The easiest way to deal with peer pressure — the bad kind at least — is to avoid it altogether. Surround yourself with people you like, who like you, and who like doing things you like doing (things that won’t get you grounded for life), and you’ll be far less likely to become a victim of peer pressure.  To test your Peer Power, play the following quiz on how to handle peer pressure.

1. Your friends are asking you to do something wrong, or something that makes you nervous or uncomfortable, like shoplifting from your favorite store, cheating on a test, or lying to your parents about where you are. You should suggest something else that is still fun and exciting but won’t get you in trouble.

Agree or Disagree

2. The “in” crowd can be a cruel place to be – everyone is always worried about losing their place or doing something stupid. It’s better to have a group of friends who like you for who you are – not who you pretend to be!

Agree or Disagree

3. Your friends are all picking on one person at school for no reason. You’d like to do something about it, but you’re afraid that if you do, no one will like you anymore. You should just join in the teasing to let your friends know that you are really one of them.

Agree or Disagree

4. Everyone always makes such a big deal about staying out of trouble – but sometimes it seems fun to do something you know you shouldn’t. It’s not like anyone would know if you stole a street sign or skipped a class. Nothing that bad ever really happens.

Agree or Disagree

5. One of your friends is smoking a cigarette and it looks kind of cool. It wouldn’t be so bad to just have one.

Agree or Disagree

6. You’re with your friends and everyone else is drinking. They all want you to try a beer and you’re not sure what to do. You don’t know how to say no, and you want to feel like you belong, so you should just go ahead and try it.

Agree or Disagree

If you agree with the first two and disagree with the last four, you came through this tough peer pressure challenge. 

~Trainee Journalist