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Article: Health-Related Variables and Academic Performance Among First-Year College Students: Implications for Sleep and Other Behaviors.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Journal of American College Health
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
- Author:
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Improved academic performance is an appropriate goal for college health promotion personnel, just as improved job performance is a desired outcome for worksite health promotion professionals. A common measure of academic performance is grade point average (GPA), and determining the factors that most affect it is important to universities. Good grades in college are highly related to career success.[1]
Health behaviors potentially affecting college student GPA include a wide range of actions and habits: exercise, sleep, and nutritional habits; development and use of social support systems; time and stress management techniques.[2] Health-related variables in ...