International Journal of Information Science and Computing

This article is mainly focusing on the procedure adopted to develop and validate a tool to study higher secondary students' perceived peer pressure. Based on the review of related literature and group discussion, initially the researcher generated 50 items on perceived peer pressure and subsequently modified in to 35 items on the basis of experts' opinion. The first try-out on 100 higher secondary students resulted in selection of 30 items and Cronbach's Alpha value was found to be 0.942. Again the tool was administered to 300 higher secondary students and based on the factor analysis the 30 items were categorized under three dimensions. The dimensions are: Yielding to Peer Pressure, Resistance to Peer Pressure and Peers Encouragement. The reliability and validity value of the final tool was found to be 0.942 and 0.971 respectively. Hence, the perceived peer pressure scale is found to be valid for application.