The Influence of Sleep Deprivation on Academic Performance Among College Students

Joel Matiku Joshua

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The Influence of Sleep Deprivation on Academic Performance Among College Students

Joel Matiku Joshua

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Educators worldwide have been concerned with searching for the determinants of academic performance with the purpose of improving the same. This article discusses a study which intended to examine the influence of sleep deprivation on academic performance among college students. This included examining the extent to which students report sleep deprivation and whether or not they experienced sleep deprivation differently by sex and other selected demographic variables. A total of 116 first year Community Development college students responded to the James Maas’s sleep deprivation scale and to questions seeking information on demographic variables such as sex, age, marital status, past education experience, employment status, religion, fee payment status and birth order. Their semester General Average Performance (GPA) was then traced at the end of semester. Descriptive analysis identified three categories of sleep deprivation among students: normal range (43.9%), borderline (31.6%) and abnormal sleep deprivation (23.9%). It was further found that female than male students reported abnormal sleep deprivation [Ӽ² (2, n = 114) = 7.27, p = 0.03, Cramer’s V = 0.32]. Although Chi-square analysis found significant sex difference with large effect in sleep deprivation, there was no difference in GPA with sleep deprivation among both male and female students. It was concluded that sleep deprivation must not necessarily account for students’ difference in academic performance in terms of GPA where almost everyone in the sample is already sleep deprived.

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DOI	10.11648/j.hss.20221004.17
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Sleep Deprivation, College Students, Academic Performance, Abnormal Sleep Deprivation

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