| dc.description.abstract | Friends play an important role and could be examined as individuals who sharing,
chatting and consulting in the daily life. No one deny the significance of friends, how
can they experiences or enjoy their life by only themselves and lack of relationship
outsides. More friends from various cultures and countries, more lesson and
experiments we can attain, one of them is making decision based on advice of friends,
who we trust and relatives to them.
There are many previous studies about the peer influences on adolescence or
teenager‟s behavior, even more drug abuse using. These studies believe that peer
affected to childhood stage more than parents or siblings. Adolescents have tendency
to copy behaviors of peer group who around them and spend more time with friends
than parents and siblings, (Bookwizad, 2008). We have to tend becoming people who
similar around us such as friends (peer), those significantly impact to our life and
decisions. Therefore, peer influence is most powerful in adolescence, which is
considered the connecting stage from childhood to adulthood and this assumption
whether correct comparable to an adult.
This study based on the peer influences model of Erikson (2005) which describes
three main factors of peer have the most ability to affect on individual‟s behavior:
peer pressure, peer modeling and acceptance seeking.
The triangulation approach will be applied in this paper. Such merge of qualitative
and quantitative methods will help approach more valuable data. In addition, using
qualitative method also help modify the model fitting Vietnamese context better.
There are still some limitations in this research. | en_US |
