Assessment Of The Perceived Impact Of Peer Pressure On Female Secondary School Students In Some Selected Schools In Addis Ababa

Currently, peer pressure has become a concern for many secondary and preparatory school rnstudents as well as parents in Ethiopia. It is believed to be the biggest factor in determining rnpreparatory school students’ academic performance. The major objectives of the study was to rnassess the influence of peer pressure on female secondary school students’ academic rnperformance and indicate some coping mechanisms of negative peer pressure on some selected rnsecondary schools in Addis Ababa . Mixed research approach was employed in this study. Thernstudy generated the required data from a representative sample of 320 adolescent femalernstudents drawn from the study population through random sampling. Data were collected rnthrough questionnaire, focus group discussion, and interview. Accordingly the following results rnare obtained: Negative peer pressure is highly observed on female adolescents of the study area rnthey get fooled by the fun and pleasure found with accompany of their friends and because rnsecondary and preparatory students are between the age of 15_18 and most of the time they are rninfluenced by negative peer pressure. Want to look fun and relaxing and to avoid being treated rnas “far” are some of the reasons why female students are susceptible to negative peer pressure. rnThere is a statistically significant negative relationship between positive peer influence and rnnegative peer influence. The same is true about the relationship between perceived academic rnperformance and negative peer influence. There is also statistically significant relationship rnbetween perceived academic performance and positive peer influence. That means, positive peer rninfluence contribute to female students’ academic achievement. Positive peer pressure has rnstrong association with better academic performance of the secondary and preparatory female rnstudents. Positive parents-female adolescent relationship would help to protect female from rnnegative peer pressure. The supervision of school community and parents on controlling the use rnof mobile phone at school and home would play vital role towards to minimize the negative peer rnpressure. Open discussion and parental advice and support would help secondary and rnpreparatory female students to cope with negative peer pressure and assisted the students to rnperform better at school

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