EFFECT OF PEER PRESSURE ON OBEDIENCE/DISOBEDIENCE BEHAVIOUR OF UNDER GRADUATE STUDENTS

Adolescent is age in which everyone feels more peer pressure. Peer pressure is the pressure feel by someone of the same age group. After the age of six every child starts to behave like his/ her peers. Peer pressure may be positive like strengthen good habit etc. and may be negative like smoking etc. students obedience /disobedience behaviour also affect by peer pressure. To study that effect investigator take this topic. For this descriptive survey method was done. A sample of 200 students was taken from two district of Haryana i. e. Rohtak and Jhajjar . Peer pressure scale by Sandeep Singh and Sunil Saini (2010) and Obedient-disobedient tendency scales by C.S. Mehta and N. husnain (1984) was used for data collection. Result from this study reveals that there is significant difference on the bases of institute means govt. Institute student feel more peer pressure then private school students. On the other hand there no significant difference on the bases of area. Investigator also despite that there is negative correlation between peer pressure and obedience/disobedience behaviour of under graduate students.