Abstract
Objective: To determine the association of smartphone addiction of male and female university students with quality of sleep and academic performance.
Study design: It is a comparative cross sectional study.
Place and duration of study: A three-month study was carried out in different universities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. (from October 2017 to January 2018)
Material and Methods: Non probability purposive sampling technique was used for data collection. Students between the ages of 18 to 25 using smartphone more than two hours per day were included. Students suffering from diagnosed sleeping disorders and taking psychological treatment were excluded from the study. Data was collected by using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Smartphone addiction scale (SAS), semester grade point average (SGPA) and cumulative grade point average (CGPA). Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 21.
Results: The mean age of the participants was 20.70±1.52 years, out of which 67% were males and 33% were females. Mean and standard deviation of global PSQI was 7.31±3.33 and SAS was 93.05±21.4 with no significant difference between males and females (P value >0.05). Mean and standard deviation of CGPA and SGPA were 3.02±1.288 and 3.38±11.19 with significant difference in SGPA (P value<0.05). SAS has showed association with PSQI and academic performance (P value <0.05).
Conclusion: Students spend a significant amount of time on smart phone thus developing addictive tendencies. It can be concluded that sleep quality and academics are directly associated with smartphone addiction in a negative way. There is no difference in sleep quality and smartphone addiction whereas academics were more affected in male students than female students.
Keywords: Academic performance, PSQI, SAS, Sleep quality, Smartphone addiction
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