Peer Pressure and Body Image

During your lifetime, you will be faced with many challenging decisions. Some of these decisions will have minor consequences, while others will have major ones. Making decisions can be difficult, especially when you are experiencing pressure from your peers, or even the media.

Peer pressure can have positive and negative effects on you. It is very important for you find ways to respond and deal with pressure from your peers. Once you are able to identify pressures in your life as either positive or negative, it will be easier for you to embrace or resist outside influences. In this topic, you will focus on peer pressure and pressure related to body image.

Essential Questions

• What is peer pressure?
• What are some examples of positive and negative peer pressure?
• What are ways to respond to positive and negative peer pressure?
• How does pressure to look a certain way cause eating disorders?