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Student health behavior and academic performance

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Reuter, Peter R., Forster, Bridget L.·2021·PeerJ

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Objective: To explore the association between health behaviors and habits of university students and academic achievement. Participants: Six hundred fourteen undergraduate students at a state university in the United States. Methods: Students were invited over a 2-year period to participate in an anonymous online survey that asked questions concerning a wide range of health behaviors and habits; participants were asked to report their current grade point average (GPA). Standard Least Squares Models were used to examine differences in self-reported GPA across the different health behaviors and habits, with individuals as replicates. Results: The study found positive associations between breakfast consumption, physical activity, and strength training and self-reported GPA, and negative associations between the hours of sleep per night, hours worked per week, fast food and energy drinks consumption, and use of marijuana, alcohol and electronic vaping products. Conclusions: While there is an association for some of the studied health behaviors and habits with self-reported GPA, the effect sizes for these health behaviors were low. The significant effect of vaping on GPA as well as the increased use reported in this study indicates that the topic should be explored further. Furthermore, students should be educated on the potential positive and negative effects of health behavior choices to help them make better choices.

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  • GPA is widely used in academic performance studies and can evaluate students' learning quality.

    “GPA can evaluate students’ learning quality in a more scientific, comprehensive, dynamic and quantitative way, which is widely used in academic performance studies [49, 50].”

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    The Introduction says grades and GPA are used as measures of academic success in the United States and many other countries. The Methods use GPA as a numerical measure, but the paper does not establish that it evaluates learning quality in a more scientific, comprehensive or dynamic way. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Reuter, P. R., & Forster, B. L.
Affiliations
Florida Gulf Coast University (US)
Corresponding author
Reuter, Peter R.
Venue
PeerJ
Publisher
PeerJ
Published
2021-04-16
Volume
9
Pages
e11107
ISSN
2167-8359 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3156282175
Cited by
61
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6
FWCI
10.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • PeerJ (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Educational Outcomes and Influences
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Wellbeing Research
Keywords
student health behavior, academic performance, grade point average, university students, breakfast consumption, physical activity, resistance training, sleep duration, fast food consumption, energy drinks, cannabis use, alcohol consumption, student employment

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