compare the influence of family and friends on teenagers
Adolescence is believed to be the most crucial period in a person’s life with a range of challenges and alterations. In this stage, juvenile turn up a variety of changes including vigorous physical development, psychological adjustment and initially formed personality. All of the teenagers’ changes are predominantly influenced by the people around them, significantly family and peers. To specific, the following essay will compare the impact of parents and friends on youngsters’ maturity.
The primary direct threats to adolescent health are deviant behavior. When it comes to family, children who live with parents smoking or drinking heavily tend to imitate what their parents do. The reports in 2004 indicate that parents who less than high school degree are 22% more likely to smoke than those with at least a Bachelor's degree. It means that the academic level of the parent is related to the level in which young people have access to cigarettes and alcohol. Besides the parenting aspect, peer environment is likely to influence adolescents' substance use and violent behavior. An outstanding example is that teenager's suicidal behavior may induce a sharp rise in suicidal thinking and actions among his or her friends (Brent et al., 1993; Robbins & Convoy, 1983). However, deficient parental monitoring (Dishion & Loeber, 1985), parent's bad habit (Chassin, Rogosch & Barrera, 1991) and interaction among family members ( Windle, 1999) influence the teenager significantly more than friends do. Since most young people ( 66%) still live with their parents, parents play a dominant role in their health behaviors (Musgrove, 1967).
Academic performance is another element making discrepancies between the influence of family and friends on youths. Friends have a positive influence on youngsters’ school performance. Associating with peers was asserted to enhance students’ school satisfaction ( Ryan, 2000). Thus, friends will help teenagers to be more motivated. Unlike peers, parents with their style of upbringing effect on children’s academic performance both positively and negatively. Authoritative parents who are caring, sensitive to the need of children give children a positive image of themselves; therefore, children can acquire high academic success ( Klarin, 2006; Berk, 2008). In contrast, adolescents living in a negative family environment are likely to have poor academic performance. In 2016 Education and Teacher Training Agency, Ines Blazevic reported that the parents who are emotionally withdrawn and distant from children’s behavior can result in a lack of supervision and teenagers’ poor academic achievement. Besides, children who receive less family support are more prone to be bullied at school especially primary school ( Dr. Anne-Laura van Harmelen, 2016). In reality, having a negative family environment and being intimidated at school create a double drawback for teenagers to experience more severe symptoms of depression in their late teens ( Dr. Anne-Laura van Harmelen, 2016).
A third aspect differentiating the influence of family and friends on adolescents is decision-making. In terms of important decisions such as academic and career choices, teenagers are more likely to be affected by parents than friends. Because crucial decisions are often tough, adolescents tend to seek advice and opinions from people having considerable experience. Therefore, parents will be a better choice. Wilks (1986) pointed out that parental guidance was most valued in areas involving educational and vocational decisions. On the other hand, for daily decisions related to club memberships and dress, peers seem to have a stronger impact on the young than families. Since young people usually conduct these activities with their age-mates in place of parents, they may have greater respect for friends’ thoughts and emotions. For example, youngsters tend to participate in voluntary clubs in which their friends join.
In conclusion, teenagers’ health, academic performance and decision are three principal aspects affected profoundly by their family and companions. It is undeniable that parents frequently have an impact on youth’s manners as well as decision-making more strongly than friends. Whereas, a few of adolescents whose parents have low knowledge level or whose family is in difficult circumstances also need the help of friends to study better.
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also, besides, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, third, thus, well, whereas, at least, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 13.1623246493 198% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 10.4138276553 240% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 7.30460921844 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 87.0 41.998997996 207% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 26.0 8.3376753507 312% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3793.0 1615.20841683 235% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 657.0 315.596192385 208% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.77321156773 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06280665599 4.20363070211 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13208279072 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 347.0 176.041082164 197% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528158295282 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1150.2 506.74238477 227% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 16.0721442886 205% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8705105619 49.4020404114 91% => OK
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Words per sentence: 19.9090909091 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.21212121212 7.06120827912 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.01903807615 219% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.67935871743 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259152232935 0.244688304435 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0740638424479 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0893177509185 0.0667982634062 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162083243704 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324229489211 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.19 12.4159519038 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 192.0 78.4519038076 245% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.