Study: Student-Athletes Have Better Mental Health

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While it may be easy to assume that the unique pressures placed on collegiate student-athletes would make maintaining their mental health difficult, a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison indicates that, at least on that campus, student-athletes are doing just fine between the ears.

The study, led by professor of nursing Traci Snedden, was published in the American Journal of Health Promotion. In it, a group of 842 student-athletes and 1,322 non-athlete undergraduates were given a standardized survey on their physical and mental health called the VR-12. Non-athlete students were subdivided into groups based on their activity level. Those groups were comprised of club athletes, intramural sports players, regular exercisers and physically inactive students.

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