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School Impacts on Health Practices and Behaviors
School is the largest and most important institution with which young people are involved, and it’s a primary context for their development (6). Schools have microcontexts and microsystems that influences an individual’s experiences at that school. -
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Schools Impacts on Health Practices and Behaviors (cont.)
These setting may have distinct characteristics, influencing individual lives. This contributes to the individual’s feelings, perception of safety, and the quality of relationships (s)he forms (6). Schools are currently using strategies to change social and behavioral outcomes for their students, such as improving teachers’ skills or surveillance within the school itself (7). -
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Community Impacts on Individuals
Additionally, the community in which one lives in, its structural characteristics, and its social processes influences the peers, families, and even the largest, most important institution for younger people - school. Within a community, it is shown that there is a strong connection between socioeconomic status and risk behavior (7). If the neighborhood is fairly educated, it gives the individuals a good chance at becoming education, and vise versa (7). -
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Media and Technology Impacts on Individuals
Media and technology is a huge part of people’s lives. Social learning theory, which has also been applied in the study of media, suggests that when individuals see a behavior portrayed in a positive way, they have a tendency to imitate it (8). Cultivation theory suggest a slightly different explanation: what individuals see on through media supersedes their own perceptions of the real world around the. Adolescents use their preferences to convey messages about their social identity (8). -
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Personal Experience
I used to have a best friend at my old school. She was always so supporting and we had been best friends since we were three. Once she got involved in media more, she began to conform to society and the results were negative. After our class separated after eighth grade, she started doing things that conformed to the social norms. -
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Personal Experience (cont.)
The media affected her in a negative way, creating new behavior and attitude towards others. She began to hang out with people that were risky people and didn’t always make positive choices. She began to do this too with peer pressure. She is not a bad person, she just conformed to a negative society.