GENERAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONFORMITY AND PEERS PRESSURE AMONG FORM 3 STUDENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN JOHOR BAHRU

As adolescence phase is a potentially critical period for an easy origination of risk and problem behavior. So, they often influenced by peers pressure which leads to conformity. Besides, the past studies are limited to show the relationship between peers pressure and conformity among adolescence. The main objective of this study the main objective of the research was to identify the general relationship between the conformity and peers pressure among Form 3 students of secondary School in Johor Bahru who are also categorized as adolescents. Apart from that, this research also aims to find the level of conformity and peers pressure among Form 3 students of secondary School in Johor Bahru. Instrument used in this study is online survey form. The respondents were 103 secondary school secondary students. From 103 respondents 58 students are female and 45 students were male. The sampling technique used was simple random sampling. The findings of the study indicate that Conformity scores lower than their scores in the Peers Pressure. None of the students have scores in the Conformity scores greater than their scores in the Peers Pressure and Conformity scores equal to their scores in the Peers Pressure. Based on the study, The Peers Pressure gave a mean score of 9.29 with a standard deviation of 1.035. The Conformity gave a mean score of 1.63 with a standard deviation of 0.840. The mean for the Peers Pressure is higher than the Conformity. Findings showed that there is significant influence between Peers Pressure and conformity.