Maintenance of Health and Wellness Among Undergraduate Students

This research investigates how undergraduate students maintain health and wellness within the collegiate environment, focusing on lifestyle-specific challenges and supporting factors. It explores diverse undergraduate lifestyles, such as student athletes, Greek life members, honors students, art majors, and STEM majors, analyzing factors including dietary habits, fitness routines, mental health, social interactions, and sleep patterns. Understanding these dynamics is crucial during this developmental period, where students face new lifestyle habits that can impact their long-term well-being. Recognizing the unique challenges of different groups allows universities and students to create environments that nurture success. The qualitative study, conducted through podcast interviews with students from Arizona State University, identifies both maintained and neglected aspects of wellness within each lifestyle. Limitations in sample size are acknowledged and suggested avenues for further research to enhance comprehensiveness are also provided. We use qualitative data from various studies and research that has been conducted on the different lifestyles of college students and aspects of their wellness that are hindered or facilitated through their lifestyles. Our findings indicate that every lifestyle of undergraduate students has unique challenges and advantages in regard to maintaining their health and wellness. There are multiple commonalities and differences that can be explored through the five different interviews which are both conducive and incompatible with previous literature and studies.