Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found a clear connection between student health and academic success.\u00a0They matched grade point averages with typical health problems for nearly 10,000 Minnesota college students.<\/p>\n
What affects grades the most?\u00a0 Stress!\u00a0 Students who reported eight or more emotional stresses – anything from failing a class to credit card debt to a conflict with parents – had an average GPA of 2.72. Those who said they had no significant stress reported an average GPA of 3.3.<\/p>\n
Those who said they could effectively manage stress performed much better than those who said they couldn’t. That’s an important finding because it might persuade colleges to provide students with the resources they need to learn how to manage stress<\/em>, according to the author of the study.<\/p>\n Original Source: startribune.com\/lifestyle\/health\/31261604.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found a clear connection between student health and academic success.\u00a0They matched grade point averages with typical health problems for nearly 10,000 Minnesota college students. What affects grades the most?\u00a0 Stress!\u00a0 Students who reported eight or more emotional stresses – anything from failing a class to credit card debt\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6,131,18],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-children","tag-education","tag-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}