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Orderliness of Campus Lifestyle Predicts Academic Performance: A Case Study in Chinese University

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Different from the western education system, Chinese teachers and parents strongly encourage students to have a regular lifestyle. However, due to the lack of large-scale behavioral data, the relation between living patterns and academic performance remains poorly understood. In this chapter, we analyze large-scale behavioral records of 18,960 students within a Chinese university campus. In particular, we introduce orderliness, a novel entropy-based metric, to measure the regularity of campus lifestyle. Empirical analyses demonstrate that orderliness is significantly and positively correlated with academic performance, and it can improve the prediction accuracy on academic performance at the presence of diligence, another behavioral metric that estimates students’ studying hardness. This work supports the eastern pedagogy that emphasizes the value of regular lifestyle.

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  1. CompleX Lab Web Sciences Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, People’s Republic of China

    Yi Cao, Jian Gao & Tao Zhou

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  1. Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Harald Baumeister

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    Christian Montag

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Cao, Y., Gao, J., Zhou, T. (2019). Orderliness of Campus Lifestyle Predicts Academic Performance: A Case Study in Chinese University. In: Baumeister, H., Montag, C. (eds) Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31620-4_8

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