Relationship between academic stress, physical activity and diet in university students of education

This 2019 study aimed to identify the relationship between physical activity (determined by PAQ-A), adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD; assessed using KIDMED), and academic stress (measured using the Scale of Academic Stress) among a sample of 515 university students. Chacón-Cuberos et al. (2019) discovered that women experienced greater levels of academic stress, especially with respect to communicating their own ideas and their academic obligations. Students in the overweight or underweight class also suffered from high levels of stress, while those less adherent to the MD scored higher for stress associated with conveying their own ideas. Physical activity could not be linked with academic stress, and nor could diet quality after controlling for sex and BMI in the regression model. Although a connection between diet quality and stress cannot be claimed, stress was associated with gender and poorer health – considering the link with being overweight. [NPID: stress, Mediterranean diet, MD, Med diet, academic stress, diet quality, gender]

Year: 2019

Reference: Chacón-Cuberos, R., Zurita-Ortega, F., Olmedo-Moreno, E. M., & Castro-Sánchez, M. (2019). Relationship between Academic Stress, Physical Activity and Diet in University Students of Education. Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 9(6), 59. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9060059