The Relationship Of Smartphone Addiction, Sleep Quality And Academic Performance Among UMS Students.

Abstract

In modern times, smartphone has become the most popular electronic gadget in our daily life. The development of smartphone has bring a lot of convenience and improve people’ daily lives, but it also bring negative effects to people. The major group of smartphone users are college students and they have experienced the situation which the use of smartphone has lower the academic performance. Besides of smartphone, sleep quality also has found important for students in improving their academic performance. Besides that, smartphone addiction also has been reported associated with sleep quality which the use of smartphone has lower the sleep quality of a student. The study has presented quantitative research on college students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah to explore the relationship between smartphone addiction, sleep quality and academic performance. A simple random sampling has been used in the study. Data was collected from 123 college students who are smartphone user through questionnaire by Google form online, containing demographic details, Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire (PSQI). SPSS was used to analyse descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation. The result of the study has shown that smartphone addiction and sleep quality is significantly associated with academic performance. The result indicated that the higher the smartphone addiction the lower the academic performance of a students. The finding also has proven that the ‘bad sleeper’ may have low academic performance. Besides, smartphone addiction also has been found associated with sleep quality. The overuse of smartphone also will lower the sleep quality of an individual.