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This is concluded based on their experiences which are all over Facebook and other social media sites. Most of them disregard the effects of being sleep deprived to their physiological and psychological functioning in order to finish academic requirements.
Whether positive or negative, sleep deprivation has a significant relationship with regards to academic performance. The authors of this research focus on the effects of sleep deprivation on the academic performance of DLSL Accountancy students. This research also contains supplementary information about the nature of sleep deprivation. In addition to these, the health implications of being sleep deprived – may it be psychologically, physiologically, emotionally, or socially – will be discussed briefly.
The objective of this research is to enhance the understanding of how the quantity of sleep affects the academic performance of students, specifically, DLSL Accountancy students. This research aims to provide its readers more information about the nature of sleep deprivation and its health implications. Likewise, this research’s purpose is to show the importance of having enough sleep to better academic …show more content…
The questionnaire also determined the quantity of sleep the students usually get every school night, the number of units they are currently enrolled in, and the average grade they have acquired as of first semester of the Academic Year 2013 - 2014. The questions being used were adapted from www.scribd.com while the presented choices for the second part of the questionnaire were derived from secondary data findings.
This was done in order to gain first hand data that will provide more information about the effects of sleep deprivation on the academic performance of students.
Results
On the survey conducted from 40 BS Accountancy students of De La Salle Lipa, 31 of them answered that they get 4 – 6 hours of sleep during school night. On the other hand, 8 out of 40 respondents answered 7 – 9 hours and only 1 respondent answered more than 9 hours.
“College-aged students ideally should get 8 – 9 hours of sleep a night. Truth is most students generally get much less” (“Sleep deprivation could affect…,” 2012). As can be seen on the graphical representation above (Figure 1) the trend of the survey appears to tell that most of the respondents lack sleep thus confirming sleep deprivation among them. They also get much less sleep than suggested. Only a small portion indicates the number of students who were getting the suggested 8 – 9 hours of
Whether positive or negative, sleep deprivation has a significant relationship with regards to academic performance. The authors of this research focus on the effects of sleep deprivation on the academic performance of DLSL Accountancy students. This research also contains supplementary information about the nature of sleep deprivation. In addition to these, the health implications of being sleep deprived – may it be psychologically, physiologically, emotionally, or socially – will be discussed briefly.
The objective of this research is to enhance the understanding of how the quantity of sleep affects the academic performance of students, specifically, DLSL Accountancy students. This research aims to provide its readers more information about the nature of sleep deprivation and its health implications. Likewise, this research’s purpose is to show the importance of having enough sleep to better academic …show more content…
The questionnaire also determined the quantity of sleep the students usually get every school night, the number of units they are currently enrolled in, and the average grade they have acquired as of first semester of the Academic Year 2013 - 2014. The questions being used were adapted from www.scribd.com while the presented choices for the second part of the questionnaire were derived from secondary data findings.
This was done in order to gain first hand data that will provide more information about the effects of sleep deprivation on the academic performance of students.
Results
On the survey conducted from 40 BS Accountancy students of De La Salle Lipa, 31 of them answered that they get 4 – 6 hours of sleep during school night. On the other hand, 8 out of 40 respondents answered 7 – 9 hours and only 1 respondent answered more than 9 hours.
“College-aged students ideally should get 8 – 9 hours of sleep a night. Truth is most students generally get much less” (“Sleep deprivation could affect…,” 2012). As can be seen on the graphical representation above (Figure 1) the trend of the survey appears to tell that most of the respondents lack sleep thus confirming sleep deprivation among them. They also get much less sleep than suggested. Only a small portion indicates the number of students who were getting the suggested 8 – 9 hours of