It will also provide the girls with meaningful ways to contribute and play leadership roles. She could like the way she looks and is confident in her athletic abilities. Negative Influences Negative influences are risk factors that challenge or impede one's healthy development. Negative influences can come from friends, family, school, community, ethnic groups, and media. Assets Assets are protective factors which empower girls to deal with negative influences or situations in their lives.
Assets can be skills, personal qualities, situations, or opportunities.
Pull from your experience and your observations. Add their ideas to the list. Teen magazines focus mainly on appearance giving a message that a girl's appearance is the most important part of herself. Women in the entertainment media are generally extremely thin. The school does not have many sports options for the girls.