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Article: Study: Grief Has Impact on College Students' Academic Performance.
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- AScribe Health News Service
- Article date:
- April 4, 2006
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Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A recent study by a Purdue University researcher found that college students who experience the death of a family member or friends also experience a corresponding drop in academic performance during the semester the loss takes place.
Heather Servaty-Seib, an assistant professor of education, studied 227 Purdue students who had experienced such a death sometime between the summer/fall of 2001 and the end of the spring 2004 semester. All bereaved undergraduates had significantly lower grade-point averages than a comparative group of students.
Results of the study are ...