The Effect of Parent Pressure and Peer Factors Affecting on the Performance of Nursing Students

Background: People cannot live alone in society. Basically people need social contacts that suit them. Sometimes they need parent’s help, love, care and guidance and some time they need friend’s intimacy, affection and love. The persons first contact is with parents and then with friends. Parent attachment is stronger during infancy and childhood whereas friend’s attachment is strong during adolescence. Attachment level varies with the ages and stages of life. This attachment influences their feelings, thinking, decisions and living styles. The persons first contact is with parents and then with friends. Aims: To assess the parental pressure and peer factors affecting the academic performance of nursing students studying in selected nursing college of Vadodara. Methods: A cross sectional research design was carried out for this study. The study was carried out on 300 students. Students were selected using stratified sampling technique. A five-point rating scale was used to assess the academic performance of students. Descriptive and inferential statistics such as mean, standard deviation, chi-square test were applied to analyze the data. Results: The effect of peer and parental pressure on the performance showed that more than half participants 61% (n=183) were having average intensity. And about 39% (n=117) of them were having high intensity. Conclusion: the present study concluded that majority of the students are having average intensity in their academics and some students are having high intensity in their academics.

962Adolescent Alcohol Use Trajectories: A Prospective Study of Risk Factors and Adulthood AUD Outcomes

Background Adolescents often display heterogenous trajectories of alcohol use. Initiation and escalation of drinking may be an important predictor of later harms. Previous attempts to conceptualise these trajectories lacked adjustment for known confounders of adolescent drinking, which our study has aimed to address by modelling dynamic changes in drinking whilst adjusting for parent, child, and peer factors. Methods Survey data from a longitudinal cohort of Australian adolescents (n = 1813) were used to model latent class alcohol use trajectories over five annual follow-ups (Mage=13.9 and 17.8 years). Regression models determined whether child, parent, and peer factors at baseline (Mage =12.9 years) predicted trajectory membership and whether trajectories predicted self-reported symptoms of AUD in early adulthood (Mage =18.8 years). Results We identified a four-class solution: abstaining (n = 352); late-onset moderate drinking (n = 503); early-onset moderate drinking (n = 663); and early-onset heavy drinking (n = 295). Alcohol-specific household rules reduced risk of early-onset heavy drinking compared to late-onset moderate drinking (RRR: 0.31; 99.5% CI: 0.11, 0.83), whereas substance-using peers increased this risk (RRR: 3.43; 99.5% CI: 2.10, 5.62). Early-onset heavy drinking increased odds of meeting criteria for AUD in early adulthood (OR: 7.68; 99.5% CI: 2.41, 24.47). Conclusions Our study provides evidence that early initiation and heavy alcohol use throughout adolescence is associated with increased risk of alcohol-related harm compared to recommended maximum levels of consumption (late-onset, moderate drinking). Key messages Parenting factors and peer influences in early adolescence should be considered to reduce risk of early initiation and heavy drinking, which in turn reduces risk of later harm.

Factors influencing adolescent self-identity development of Senior High School Students in Effutu Municipality in Central Region. Ghana

Purpose: The study sought to explore the parental and peer factors that influence adolescent self-identity development of senior high school students in the Effutu Municipality. Methodology: The descriptive survey design using the quantitative method was adopted for the study. A self-designed questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 310 students for the study. Frequencies, percentages were used to answer the research questions while Independent-Samples t-test was used to test the hypotheses. Findings: The findings revealed that frequent parent-adolescent communication enhances adolescent self-identity development. It was also found that peer feedback was a source of adolescent self-identity development. The study also revealed that there was statistically significant gender difference with regard to peer factors contributing to adolescent self-identity development. Unique contribution to theory and practice: It was recommended that during Parents Teachers Association meetings, parents should be educated by the schools on the need to create conducive environments at home to help their children build strong self-identities since parents make impact on their self-identity development.

The Silver Lining in the Dark Cloud of Social Status Insecurity: The Mediating Role of Popularity Goals in the Association Between Social Status Insecurity and Chinese Adolescents’ Bullying Bystander Behaviors

Bullying bystander behavior has an important effect on bullying—both in stopping and facilitating it. Although bullying bystander behaviors have long been understood as a peer group process, existing research that focuses on the role of peer factors is still limited. Moreover, less is known about the social cognitive-related role of peer factors and its underlying mechanisms in adolescents’ bullying bystander behaviors. Accordingly, using resource control theory, this study examines the mediating effects of popularity goals on the associations between social status insecurity and bullying bystander behaviors (active defending behaviors, passive bystanding behaviors) among 333 Chinese adolescents (181 males; Mage = 13.10; SD = .50). Analyses were conducted using SPSS 23 to conduct descriptive and correlation analyses. The hypothesized mediation model was tested using a structural equation modeling approach with bootstrapping techniques (bootstrap replications: 5,000) using AMOS 23. The results showed that popularity goals fully mediated the relationship between adolescents’ social status insecurity and their active defending behaviors. No gender differences in these mediating effects were observed. The results also indicated that popularity goals did not mediate the relationship between social status insecurity and passive bystanding behaviors. These findings enrich our understanding of bullying bystander behaviors and highlight the positive role of social cognitive factors (e.g., popularity goals) in active defending behaviors. Our findings deepen our understanding of bullying bystanders through integrating proximate and ultimate approaches. Our findings have significant practical implications, which suggest that school anti-bullying interventions should value the positive roles of social status insecurity and popularity goals in promoting active defending behaviors.

Dynamics Affecting Career Choice: A Drift in the College of Business and Accountancy Campaign Plan

Marketing campaigns maintain consistency among advertisements, promoting a unified brand message across all platforms. This consistency helps create a strong brand identity and voice. The examination decided the degree of the senior high school understudies' impression on the variables influencing their career decision as to personal factors, peer factors, family factors, and school factors. There are 200 respondents from the Senior High department using stratified random technique. Frequency and simple percentage, Weighted Mean, Chi-Square Test of Independence, were used to analyzed and interpret the data accumulated. The study revealed that personal factors, peer factors, and school factors are the most common perception in career decision making. At the same time, BSED in English, Accountancy, and Nursing are the most preferred courses. The study further revealed a statistically significant relationship between academic track and the students' perception on the factors that affect career choice. There is also a statistically significant relationship between personal factors, school factors, and the respondents' most preferred courses. The study concluded that senior high school students' must be guided to achieve a good decision pursuing courses offered by the Business and Accountancy department. A campaign program is inevitable to realize the set objectives higher and to prepare for future student encounters.

Faktor-Faktor Pendorong Pengamalan Nilai-Nilai Islam dalam Kalangan Pelajar Malaysian Aviation Training Academy (MATA), Kuantan

This study aims to identify the motivating factors for the practicing of Islamic values among students at the Malaysian Aviation Training Academy. Crisis in moral and moral turmoil among students is the contributor of failure to translate Islamic values in the form of practicing in the daily lives of students should be carried out assessment so that the understanding and practization of Islamic values becomes the basis for students' lives. This study is in the form of surveys using adapted questionnaires certified by two assessors in the field of Islamic education who are experienced and have good reliability value. A total of 169 students from aircraft maintenance engineering licence courses (CAT B1.1) and aircraft maintenance technician licenses (CAT A1.1) through sampling techniques were easily involved in this study. The degree of reliability (alpha cronbach) for each study question is 0.85 for parental factor aspects, 0.79 for mass media factors, 0.74 for lecturer factors and 0.68 for peer factors. The data was analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science, Version 20. The findings found that lecturers were the highest factor with mean 4.33, followed by parental factors of 4.61, peer factor 3.65 and mass media 4.50. Finally, the implications of this study show that the emphasis on the practice of Islamic teaching is crucial so that students become a Muslim who practices good morals in everyday life based on the Quran and as-Sunnah to develop good student personality

Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Agresivitas Remaja

Aggressiveness is the desire to hurt other individuals, by expressing negative feelings such as hostility to achieve the desired goal. The aggressiveness component consists of physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that influence aggressiveness. Literature searches were carried out on the Researchgate, Scopus, Springer, and Google Schoolar electronic databases using the keywords "aggressive behavior and aggressiveness". The research strategy of this research is a kind of systematic literature review research using qualitative (meta-synthesis) methods. The approach used in this research is meta-ethnograph. Search results show that aggressiveness is influenced by internal and external factors. These internal factors include: frustration, thinking disorders and adolescent intelligence, as well as emotional / emotional disturbances in adolescents while external factors include family or peer factors, school factors and environmental factors.