The Effects Of Sleep Deprivation On The Academic Performance Of The College Students

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Abstract

Sleep deprivation is expected to affect the cognitive and behavioral attitude of human

beings. This study attempts to analyze the impact of sleep deprivation on the academic

performance of the college students. The study uses an appropriate sample of 200 students and

used personal interviewing technique to collect the data. The hypothesis are made by reviewing

the past literature of the same field and expected that sleep deprivation affects negatively the

behavior and academic performance of the students.

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Sleep Deprivation

Sleep deprivation can appear in the living beings, included both human beings and

animals, either in the form of lack of sleep during a certain period of time or a shorter period of

sleep than the optimal sleep time. The effects are different in human beings and animals and both

have critical issues in offering their routine life jobs. As far as this research is going to be related

to the effects in human beings and the effects of sleep deprivation on their performance capacity.

Many research can be found in the same field that assess the impacts of sleep deprivation on the

human body and their potential lack in capabilities of doing routine work. Orzel-Gryglewska

assesses the consequences of sleep deprivation in human beings and briefly look for the causes

and their ultimate consequences. The author lists different causes of sleep reduction and relate

them to their possible consequences. The day time sleepiness of a normal person is related to the

hours of sleep and the intensity of sleep a person experience. Sleep deprivation is caused not

only by the lack of average sleep time per day but also it is caused by the restless sleep.

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References

Ahrberg, K., Dresler, M., Niedermaier, S., Steiger, A., & Genzel, L. (2012). The interaction

between sleep quality and academic performance. Journal of psychiatric research, 46(12),

Lowry, M., Dean, K., & Manders, K. (2010). The link between sleep quantity and academic

performance for the college student. Sentience, 3, 16-9.

Orzeł-Gryglewska, J. (2010). Consequences of sleep deprivation. International journal of

occupational medicine and environmental health, 23(1), 95-114.

Short, M. A., & Banks, S. (2014). The Functional Impact of Sleep Deprivation, Sleep

Restriction, and Sleep Fragmentation. In Sleep Deprivation and Disease (pp. 13-26).

Durmer, J. S., & Dinges, D. F. (2005, March). Neurocognitive consequences of sleep

deprivation. In Seminars in neurology (Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 117-129).

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