We have tried to show, using a rating scale, the importance of family, peer, and school pressure on 828 Senegalese adolescents attending school. Boys felt better understood successively by their mothers, best male friends, fathers, favourite teachers, and best female friends, while the decreasing order of understanding of the girls was mother, favourite teacher, best male boy friend, father, best female friend.
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