Abstract:

In the current study, it is aimed to determine the extent to which direct and indirect peer pressure on adolescents predict their life satisfaction. The study was conducted on a total of 526 high school students (289 females and 237 males) attending high schools located in the central district of the city of Burdur. The mean age of the study group is 15,06. The data of the study were collected by the personal information form developed by the researchers, the Life Satisfaction Scale adapted to Turkish by Yetim (1993) and the Peer Pressure Scale developed by Kıran-Esen (2003). In the analysis of the collected data, while Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchic multi-linear regression analysis were used to determine the relationships between variables, independent samples t-test and one-way variance analysis were used to determine the differences and Tukey and Hochberg’s GT2 tests were used to test the source of the differences. For all the statistical analyses, SPSS 20.0 program package was used and the significance level was set to be ,05. As a result of the analyses, it was concluded that the adolescents’ life satisfaction was negatively and significantly predicted by the direct and indirect peer pressures they were exposed to. Moreover, the adolescents’ life satisfaction was found to be varying significantly depending on the perceived social-economic level but not varying significantly depending on gender, type of the school, grade level, family structure and place of residence. Findings of the study were discussed in light of the literature

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