by Matthew Hung Kee Chan. / Title also in Chinese characters. / Includes questionnaire in Chinese. / Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-70). / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.vii / Chapter CHAPTER I： --- Introduction --- p.1 / Socialization Agents --- p.2 / TV Advertising as Socialization Agent --- p.7 / Peer as Socialization Agent --- p.11 / TV Advertising Viewing and Peer Interaction --- p.12 / Chapter CHAPTER II: --- Consumer Learning --- p.14 / TV Advertising and Consumer Learning --- p.17 / Peer Interaction and Consumer Learning --- p.20 / "TV Advertising, Peer Interaction and Consumer Learning" --- p.22 / Chapter CHAPTER III: --- Method --- p.27 / Subjects and Procedure --- p.27 / Variables Assessed in the Study --- p.29 / Chapter CHAPTER IV: --- Results --- p.31 / Description of Sample Characteristics / Sex --- p.34 / TV Viewing Time --- p.37 / Exposure to TV Advertising --- p.38 / Peer Interaction about TV Advertising --- p.40 / Consumer Learning Score --- p.42 / Analysis of Variance on Consumer Learning --- p.43 / "by Age, Sex, TV AdvertsingViewing Time, and Peer Interaction about TV Advertising" / Chapter CHAPTER V: --- Discussion --- p.48 / Summary --- p.52 / REFERENCES --- p.54 / APPENDICES --- p.71

published_or_final_version / Criminology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-18T21:31:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 5 Clara Vianna Prado1.pdf: 516816 bytes, checksum: 35dd4398466c0b0d37a5a10db6e02b17 (MD5) Clara Vianna Prado2.pdf: 1244723 bytes, checksum: 74edb0af472142327b7106fd6f665707 (MD5) Clara Vianna Prado3.pdf: 489678 bytes, checksum: 3d344f06f0609fd73c94e7eba20fdff1 (MD5) Clara Vianna Prado4.pdf: 2928853 bytes, checksum: 1a490b2b4ccf70277fe36d69e49671b1 (MD5) Clara Vianna Prado5.pdf: 2285404 bytes, checksum: 6be157dd098e8656b610e91d4b9daae3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-14 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / The world s demand for the English language also presents Brazilian schools with the need to prepare its students to communicate with the world. With that comes the need for different ways to present the content, always seeking the best for the student. This work aims to be a contribution to the study of teaching English as a second language to the teenage public initially looking at issues that may hinder their learning experience, by highlighting the peer pressure, examining its effects in the classroom and presenting possible solutions to the problem. Games appear as a possible solution due to its playful character and ability to motivate and present the content differently. But the game or any other material used in the classroom, even the black board, if there is no contemplation by the teacher, about the connection of that material with content they want to pass, presents no benefit to the teaching and learning of a student. Thus, the game is an activity that despite having a time and a limited space, they can go beyond that with its concepts. The goal of this dissertation is to construct a game applying some of the concepts of how to minimize the effects of peer pressure. This game was designed to be used in a classroom of English as a second language with teenagers and to contribute to the learning of these students. / A exigência mundial em relação à língua inglesa confere também às escolas brasileiras o encargo de preparar os alunos para se comunicarem com o mundo. Surge então a necessidade de diferentes formas de se apresentar o conteúdo, buscando sempre o melhor aproveitamento do aluno. Este trabalho visa a ser uma contribuição ao ensino de inglês como segunda língua para o público adolescente, buscando inicialmente elencar aspectos que possam dificultar o aprendizado, destacando o peer pressure, analisando os seus efeitos em sala de aula e apresentando possíveis soluções para o problema. O jogo aparece como uma possível solução por seu caráter lúdico e habilidade de motivar e apresentar o conteúdo de forma diferente. Porém, o jogo ou qualquer outro material utilizado em sala de aula, até mesmo a lousa, se não houver uma reflexão por parte do professor sobre a ligação daquele material com o conteúdo que se quer passar, não apresenta nenhum beneficio para o ensino e aprendizado do aluno. Assim, o jogo é uma atividade que apesar de ter um tempo e um espaço limitados, pode extrapolá-los com conceitos. O produto desta dissertação se dá na construção de um jogo em que serão aplicados alguns dos conceitos de como minimizar os efeitos do peer pressure. Esse jogo foi pensado para ser utilizado em uma sala de aula de inglês como segunda língua para o público adolescente e tem como objetivo primordial contribuir com o aprendizado destes.

Introduktion Majoriteten av alla ungdomar använder sociala medier för att kommunicera med sina vänner genom bilder, chatt och forum eller för informationsinhämtning. På dessa mötesplatser finns reklam och innehåll som är könsstereotypa. Många ungdomar känner press att leva upp till stereotyperna vilket gör att man lägger upp förskönande bilder för att efterlikna idealen. Syftet med denna litteraturöversikt var att beskriva hur självbilden hos ungdomar i åldrarna 13-25 kan påverkas av innehållet i sociala medier. Metod Vetenskapliga artiklar hittades i databaserna CINAHL och PubMed. Genom en litteraturöversikt tematiserades de använda artiklarna och utifrån dem framkom fem teman. Resultat De fem teman som hittades var Grupptryckets, Den sociala jämförelsens, Smalhetsidealets, Träningsbudskapets och Kostbudskapets inverkan på självbilden. Grupptryck kunde leda till missnöje kring den egna kroppen vilket var vanligare hos tjejer än killar. För tjejer var smalhetsidealet mest dominerande medan det för killar var styrketräning. Att inte leva upp till idealen kunde även leda till depressiva symptom och ätstörningar. Diskussion Att konsumera idealbilder av män och kvinnor kan ge upphov till en orealistisk press på sig själv men det kan också fungera som motivation. / Introduction The majority of young people use social media to communicate with their friends through photos, chats and forums or to find information. Advertisement and content in social media often portrays gender stereotypes. Many young people feel pressured to live up to the stereotypes and uploads beautified images to mimic ideals. The aim of the study was to describe how the content in social media could influence the self-image of adolescents aged 13-25. Method Scientific articles were found in the databases CINAHL and PubMed. The articles were thematized and five themes emerged through a literature review. Results The five themes that emerged were the effect Peer pressure, Social comparison, Drive for thinness, Training and Food related content had on the self-image among adolescents. Peer pressure could lead to body dissatisfaction. The drive for thinness dominated among girls while the most dominating ideal for boys were a muscular body. Failure to live up to the ideals could lead to depressive symptoms and eating disorders. Discussion Consuming ideal images of men and women could lead to an unrealistic pressure on themselves but it could also serve as motivation.

published_or_final_version / Mental Health / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Why are so many girls becoming pregnant in Brownsville, Texas? I encountered this question as a result of my field work. Teachers, school administrators, community officials, parents, and even students pose this question as part of a local concern over the high birth rate among Brownsville youth. As a response to this concern, I engage with this overarching research question by exploring the sex lives and romantic experiences of young mothering teens in Brownsville, through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. However, as part of a larger mission of problematizing common misconceptions and misunderstanding regarding Mexican-origin youth and their sex lives, this thesis offers a Chicana feminist/borderlands analysis of what the young women shared concerning their sexual experiences. Through their stories, I situate teen pregnancy as a symptom of a complex web of discourses, practices, social institutions, and ideologies regarding sex, thereby elucidating the socio-cultural factors that make young Mexicanas vulnerable to unprotected sex, and consequently unintended pregnancy in Brownsville, Texas. Throughout this thesis I focus on three social and personal venues that stood out as the most influential sources from which my informants learned and talked about sex: peers, mothers, and boyfriends. Contrary to the culture of silence presumed by the literature, the mothers and peers of the young respondents are quite vocal about sex; in fact, there is strong peer pressure for young women to have sex. However, they are expected to so within the context of a committed, heterosexual relationship in which young women give into male desire. This set of social expectations compels young women to have unprotected sex, but also to engage in unwanted sex. In the final chapter, I suggest how sex education can be improved and tailored to the particular needs of Brownsville youth—that is both women and men. / text

A research study submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management in Strategic Marketing (MMSM) Wits Business School May 2017 / The research investigated the impact of three socialisation agents (i.e. advertising, parents and peers) and personal attitudes on alcohol consumption among South Africa youth. There is a growing concern of the high and year-on-year increase in alcohol consumption in the country which has not only been linked to social ills such as crime, violence, sexual abuse, but also to health concerns. Of greater concern is the ever growing penetration of alcohol consumption among young people. The South African government has pledged its support to the World Health Organisation to reduce the harmful use of alcohol; and appointed an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) to develop programs that seek to reduce alcohol-related harm. The findings generated from this study provide insights into social influences and social interventions that might assist in reducing the harmful use of alcohol. The research employed a quantitative approach and was cross-sectional in design. Non-random quota sampling was employed and a total of 300 youths from Gauteng were issued with self-administered questionnaires. The young people were at different life stages; students, blue and white collar workers. Using SPSS 22 and AMOS 22 software programs, structural equation modelling (SEM) was performed to analyse the data set. The results revealed that personal attitude, peer influence, and advertising exposure have positive and significant influences on youth alcohol consumption. Parental influence had a positive, yet weak and unimportant, effect on youth alcohol consumption. The implication of the results in this study is that government, alcohol manufacturers and the community at large need to consider, and possibly prioritise, other harmful uses of alcohol interventions and address personal attitudes that young people have developed to reduce the effects of peer pressure. / MT2017

Self-injury behavior is identified as the non-suicidal, deliberate infliction of a wound to oneself in an attempt to seek expression. Self-injury is becoming more prevalent in the adolescent population; however, many nursing professionals are unaware of this phenomenon and the implications it holds for nursing. Approximately 12 to 17 percent of adolescents deliberately injure themselves although accurate statistics are difficult to obtain due to the secret and private nature of the behavior. Nurses, especially those who care for adolescents, could benefit from an understanding of the implications of self-injury, the characteristics of adolescents who self-injure, the expressivity of the behavior, and the repetitive patterns of the emotions experienced by adolescents who self-injure. Six adolescent females were interviewed for this study. Their stories were shared in rich, descriptive narratives. Common themes emerged from the words of the participants and these themes described the essence of self-injury by cutting for adolescent females. The themes which emerged were living with childhood trauma, feeling abandoned, being an outsider, loathing self, silently screaming, releasing the pressure, feeling alive, being ashamed, and being hopeful for self and others. The general structure that emerged from a synthesis of the themes was that the experience of self-injury by cutting for adolescent females is one where they are struggling for well-being and hoping for more being by using their skin as a canvas upon which internal pain is expressed as tangible and real. / by Rhonda Goodman Lesniak. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

This study investigated friend influence on school engagement in a sample of 160 stable same-sex friendship dyads (94 female dyads and 66 male dyads) from five senior high schools and four vocational schools in a small city in central Finland. Longitudinal data were collected during the first and second years of upper secondary school, approximately one year apart, and self-reports were available from both members of each friendship dyad. The framework of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kenny, Kashy & Cook, 2006) was used to estimate friend influence on school engagement in a model that did not distinguish same-sex friends, in a direct-effects model that distinguished friends based on relative levels of school burnout, and in a multiple-group model for distinguishable friends that investigated perceptions of maternal affection as a moderator of friend influence. Results suggest that the higher burnout partner in a friendship dyad influenced a decline in the lower burnout partner's school engagement only when the lower burnout partner perceived low maternal affection. When the lower burnout partner perceived high maternal affection, there was no evidence of negative influence by a higher burnout partner. Patterns of influence did not vary as a function of sex or school track. The importance of distinguishing friends on a theoretically and statistically meaningful basis to learn who influences whom, and of investigating indirect effects models when studying friend influence is also discussed. / by Donna Marion. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.