NAME: NURIN BINTI ABDULLAH

ID: 0318596

MODULE: ELG 30505

SESSION: FEBRUARY 2014

THE PRE-WRITING

The factors young people have little leisure time and under a lot of pressure to work hard in their

studies

Peer pressure

competition among the coursemates

feels anxious and challenged when they received scholarship &

score higher marks than you

To fit in into the particular group

do not want being critized/ judged by their

friends

Parental expectation

parents expect children's physical ability fit enough

think that the childrencan burn the midnight oil just

to study

Wants the best for the children.

benefits them for future -they can live comfortably, enough money, no need to

worry

Do not want their children to repeat their

mistakes/opportunities.

Heavy education system

More to memorizing than understand the concept

and too much of homework

Spend time more on that, do not have have for

themselebes

The factors young people have little leisure time and under a lot of pressure to

work hard in their studies

To compare now and the past, the young people nowadays are more

capable and determine in terms of studying. Their weekends are no longer

being filled with family activities but instead, “I am busy” or “I still have some

work to complete” sentences are coming out from their mouth. The fact that

the youth have little leisure time, they are also under a lot of pressure in order

to work hard in their studies. Therefore, the question is, what are the factors

that make the youth to behave in such way? This is all because of peer

pressure, parental expectation and heavy education system.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in this situation. To start off, peer

pressure means the pressure that the individual may received from the group

to think, feel and behave in certain ways whether they want to or not. An

individual may behave and study really hard just because they want to fit in

into the particular group. They do not want to score poorly in studies as they

do not want to be judged and left out by their group of friends. Even though

some individual may not doing good in studies but it seems that they have to

spend time less for themselves and keep catching up with other cliques. Next,

studies can be seen as a competition among the peers. One may feel anxious

and challenged when every time the other friends score higher marks than

them. Uslu, M. (2013) did point out that there is a relationship between self-

esteem and peer pressure among adolescents especially in school. In his

findings, it can be seen that mostly female’s youth are lack of self-esteem due

to the peer pressure. This might as well explain why the youth preferably to

have little leisure time and spend most of their days to study.

Moving on, parental expectation also the reason why the youth are

always under pressure. This is because parents expect that their children’s

physical abilities are fit enough. They assure that their children can burn the

midnight oil and sacrifice most of their life just to study. That is some little

things that parents always forget, that the children are just human like them

too. The children still need some rest and play in order to have a stable life.

Then, the parents always believe that the children can do so much better than

them in the past. However, they tend to forget that education 10 years back

and now are vary in so many ways. The struggle they had before are different

of what the children is having now. In fact, KILDAN, A. (2013) observed that

the parents’ expectation levels even from pre-school education in the

dimension of pedagogical quality and in terms of physical quality according to

variable of educational background. As the education level of the parents

increases, their expectations even from the pre-school education also

increase. This situation actually causes the children to be more under

pressured and led to be them to have less time to play and focus on studies

instead.

In addition, the heavy education system that is being conducted in

school nowadays will cause the youth to have less leisure time and be under

pressured. Education is changing everyday and most of the time, it become

more challenging. As example, Eric, A. (2012) claims that nobody seems to

please with China’s educational system. This is because the system

overemphasis on rote memorization, a top-down instructional style that

crushes individuality and near-total reliance on exams to evaluate progress.

From that, we can see that the youth might have spend their days by

memorizing the notes and information given from the teachers instead of

making them to understand the concept. Since the education system are

more to daily rehearse, some teachers just simply give them a pile of

homework to do at home. Not enough being burden to memorize the notes,

now the students have to complete the homework. Without doubt, the youth

will have no time to spend for themselves and stressing out to finish the work

instead.

In conclusion, peer pressure, parental expectation and heavy

education system are really causing the youth to have less time for

themselves and always under pressure. In a long run, this matter can be

really crucial to the extent the relationship between the youth and family is

getting restricted, as well as health condition of the children will be very

concerning. With no rest and working hard too much in studies might cause

the children fall into a deep depression and might lead to emotional anxiety or

suicidal. Therefore, the parents and the teachers must aware of this matter

seriously.

REFERENCES

1. Uslu, M. (2013). RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEGREES OF SELF-

ESTEEM AND PEER PRESSURE IN HIGH SCHOOL

ADOLESCENTS. International Journal Of Academic Research, 5(3),

119-124. doi:10.7813/2075-4124.2013/5-3/B.19

2. KILDAN, A. (2013). Analysis of the Expectation Levels of the Parents

from the Preschool Education Institution in Terms of Various Variables.

International Journal Of Educational Research & Technology, 4(1), 6-

12.

3. Eric, A. (2012, July 3). A liberal Arts Education, Made in China. The

New York Times. Retrieved March 23rd, 2014 from

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/a-liberal-arts-education-

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