Factors That Affect Sleep During African American College Students And The Relationship Between Their Sleep And Study Habits

Background and Audience Relevance: College students are one of the biggest populations of people to be sleep deprived. We fill ourselves with coffee, and other forms of caffeine yet, there have been serious, fatal incidents about sleep deprivation. As we continue our journey through college, we should invest ourselves in having rights amount of sleep, and to not resort to all-nighters.

Specific Purpose: Sleep and college students usually don’t tend to get along very well. Sleep and college life often bump heads due to stress, coursework and social activities. This speech will give the students useful information about dangers of not getting enough sleep and also hints on how to get a better nights sleep.

Indeed, while although college students can finish up assignments and finish up tasks by staying up, it can lead to more negative turn of events than positive, college students should have better sleep hygiene for a better academic life because they are unable to memorizing information to long term memory, unable to function properly in the day and tend to fail classes, and college students tend to have more anxiety and a negative mood towards people. These negative effects can lead a college student to fail classes and live a stressful life. If more college students understand their bodies and the importance of sleep and how it can actually benefit their well-being, it can lead to less stressed out faces and the overwhelming smell of coffee

The students who participated in this study were African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans. The factors that were measured were sleep behavior, attitude toward the behavior, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. The individual's sleep behavior would be self reported by the amount of minutes they obtained. The amount of minutes that were considered an adequate sleep behavior were between 420 to 480 total minutes which is about 7 to 8 hours of sleep. If they recorded less than 420 minutes it was considered an inadequate sleep behavior.

Teens aren't getting enough sleep and the cause of this could affect their academic performance. African-Americans have more sleep deficits than other races in the grades 9 through 12. The less time spent in school could be more time to sleep and perform better at other things.

To our knowledge, this is the first study to have found a relationship between poor sleep quality and lower academic performance using a large sample size and, importantly, for nondepressed students alone (controlling for depression). The significant negative correlation between GSQ score and GPA supports our initial hypothesis that poor sleep quality is associated with lower academic performance for nondepressed students. This hypothesis is also supported by the finding that in our subject population nondepressed students with clinically poor sleep quality had significantly lower GPAs than

College students are one of the population who suffer most from sleep deprivation, some of the factors that cause this is, staying up late and having an eight am class the next day, having a lot of distractions around him or her like a social life, family, and personal issues. Another factor can be them not understanding what’s going on in classroom so they gradually stop showing up. There are so many more factors that can cause a student to be sleep deprived, and because of it, it has caused serious negative consequences to their health, grades, attendance, some come to the point of having to drop classes.

Gilbert and Weaver (2010) examined the sleep quality with academic performance with university students, whether it is complete sleep deprivation or poor sleep quality. This study was to determine if lack of sleep or having poor sleep value in non-demoralized college students were related to the low academic routine. The author’s expectations were to find the relationship between the student’s environment and lifestyle with their sleep patterns and the force it has on their educational performance. Within the study the authors found that being able to have good sleep patterns and quality is a big key part for student to have a good GPA and

Are you tired and having trouble paying attention in class? Focusing on tasks at hand? Or just completely being overall unproductive? The average college student is deprived at least two full hours asleep each night according to “College Tidbits” a website designed to promote healthy lifestyles and productivity in daily college life. These results were pooled from multiple surveys done over hundreds of campuses throughout the United States. Today, I hope to persuade you to fight the statistics and get those extra two hours of sleep. Do what it takes to get the full seven to nine hours that is suggested by the Mayo Clinic. I will discuss two problems. Why college students are not

Sleep is an incredibly important physiological action that functions as a period of growth, repair, rest, and relaxation for the human body (“Sleep,” 2015). As a population, college students are notorious for their skewed sleep patterns and their overall lack of getting the sufficient number of hours of sleep they need to perform optimally in school. Cramming the night before exams by pulling an “all-nighter” as well as the overall excessive number of distractions that present themselves with college life seem to interfere with students’ sleep. Sleep deprivation appears to be coupled with college students, and research studies have presented statistics that support this generalization. In an article published through the University of Michigan, fifty percent of students said that they were sleepy during the day and seventy percent of students said they did not get an adequate amount of sleep at night (Hershner & Chervin, 2014). Specifically, it appears that nursing students suffer from sleep deprivation, correlated with stressors linked to clinical practice and the rigorous nature of nursing programs (Ticona Benavente, Marques de Silva, Baraldi Higashi, de Azevedo Guido, & Siqueira Costa, 2014). In this paper, I will discuss the causes and effects of sleep deprivation, with a focus on how sleep deprivation relates to nursing students, and then present some nursing interventions that could be utilized for this problem.

Academic stress and parental pressure may not be the only causes of sleep deprivation in college and high school students. According to Lund et al (2010), during puberty, it is normal for students to experience a delay in sleep and wake cycle. Moreover, caffeine consumption and excessive use of electronics at night, further disrupt the sleep cycles of adolescents (p.125).

Furthermore, this research was interested to discover whether poor sleep was associated with a specific aspect of negative well-being: depression. Results showed that subjective depression was significantly associated with tiredness and concentration, and negatively correlated with sleep quality and daytime sleepiness, which supports the research hypothesis and previous reports of this association. For example, Pilcher and colleagues (1997) reported that individuals with poor sleep quality who experience daytime sleepiness

For the Research Review Article, I wanted to understand how sleep deprivation affects undergraduates’ academic performance. My topic question is as follow: What is the underlining cause of sleep deprivation in undergraduate students & how does this phenomenon negatively affects their academic performance? It is well known that poor sleep pattern is a common trend in college students. What I am seeking to fully understand is whether the hours allocated for sleeping is the primary problem, or is

The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of sleep timing, sleep quality, and sleep duration on academic achievements in young adults. Those who participated in the study were thirty-six Italian seniors in high school. In order to determine their ideal sleep timing, they each filled out the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (MEQ-CA). For two non-consecutive weeks, students underwent actigraphy, which is a non-invasive method of monitoring human rest and activity cycles. This was done in a one month period, and was able to assess factors such as: habitual sleep timing though the midpoint (MS); habitual sleep quality through the parameter of sleep efficiency (SE); and habitual sleep duration through the parameter of total sleep time (TST) (Tonetti, Fabbri, Filardi, Martoni, Natale, 2015). At the end of each actigraphic-recording week, the students completed the Mini Sleep Questionnaire, and their school performance were assessed by the grades achieved after taking final exams.

There is a certain group of Americans who aren’t getting enough sleep. It's making them sick and it's affecting many aspects of their lives. Who are they? It’s the average American college student. According to the University of Michigan, college students are one of the most sleep-deprived populations (Sleep). Most college students don’t get the recommended amount of sleep; mostly because of the numerous priorities such as turning in papers on time or studying for exams. Sleep is often pushed further down their priority list. Just because we are young college students, doesn’t mean we don’t need sleep. When we go to college our stereotypes come with us, including that college students don’t get enough sleep and all we eat is ramen soup. As students transition to college, they are not typically taught about the side effects of being sleep deprived. Not getting enough sleep affects academic performance, social life, and health. Students should learn the importance of getting sleep and staying healthy because college is important.