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Abstract
In the face of the increasing amounts of stressors and responsibilities placed on high school students, it is important to examine if a busy schedule is conducive to positive outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of student extracurricular participation on levels of student engagement and academic stress. Four hundred sixty students from a suburban high school in the southeastern region of the United States were administered self-report measures to collect data related to these three constructs. Results suggest that the benefits of extracurricular participation may be curvilinear in nature. Implications for practice will be discussed within.