Peer pressure
The opinions of the child's peers play an important role in spectacle compliance and as a child gets older, neutral comments on their appearance from friends and non-friends decrease, and in the case of non-friends these neutral comments become negative.1 This trend is found to be most prominent around the ages of five and six where the positive comments decline and the negative comments increase. This is possibly the age when children are becoming more socially aware and influences from peers about spectacles are heightened.2 There is also an indirect influence upon non-compliance from the parents of children requiring spectacles.1 Negative opinions voiced by the parent's peers have an impact on the compliance and frequency of spectacle wear in their own children's views.
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