Gender Differences in Self-esteem, Parental Pressure and Peer Pressure among Adolescents

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Page: 499-502

Urvashi Singh and Manju (Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

Adolescence is the fleeting stage of a person’s life that shapes their entire existence, whether professionally or personally in terms of their career. Adolescents have to face many things like parental pressure, peer pressure, body image issues, self-esteem issues, etc. Both genders, i.e., males and females have their own experiences and differ from each other. This paper seeks to investigate how adolescent girls and boys differ in terms of self-esteem, parental pressure and peer pressure. 200 teenagers, 100 males and 100 females, between the ages of 16 and 18, made up the sample for the study. The findings revealed significant gender differences in relation to parental pressure, self-esteem and peer pressure. Female adolescents were found significantly higher in self-esteem and perceived parental pressure than male adolescents and male adolescents were found higher in peer pressure than female adolescents.