Sweat it Out: The Benefits of Exercise on Students' Psychological Wellbeing

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Abstract

This study examines the influence of students’ exercise habits on several measures of emotional health in their fourth year of college. Using a multi-institutional, longitudinal dataset to examine wellbeing using both hierarchical modelling and augmented inverse propensity weighted regression, this study has implications for students, college administrators, and quantitative researchers.

Authors

• Joshua Holmes, University of Iowa

• KC Culver, University of Iowa

• Ernest Pascarella, University of Iowa