College Students Minds Are Getting Enough Sleep

The last thing on many college students’ minds is getting enough sleep. Many college students may not think sleep is an integral part of life, when in fact many researchers have found how truly important it is. College is a time when students are transitioning into young adulthood, with increasing amounts of personal responsibility (Brown, Soper, Buboltz , 2001). This increase in responsibility, that at one point didn’t exist because of familial support, can lead to an interference in student sleep patterns (Pilcher, Ginter, Sadowsky, 1997). It is typical for students, once leaving to college, for their sleep patterns to change. College students tend to have an irregular sleep-wake cycle in which the length of sleep is shorter on†¦show more content†¦Specifically, how does the amount of sleep obtained affect the GPA of a graduate student, when taking into account factors such as the hours spent working, as well as the hours spent studying. In addition, the go al of the research is to test whether graduate students who obtain more hours of sleep, will have a higher GPA when compared with students who obtain less sleep, when taking into account the amount of hours allocated towards studying and the amount of hours allocated towards work. Published research has indicated the importance of sleep and the academic performance of college students. It is important to explore how sleep affects the performance of college students in order to provide psychoeducational support to students who may have academic difficulties due to lack of sleep. Chapter 2 Review of Literature Many researchers have established a link between sleep and the academic success of high school and undergraduate students. Sleep deprivation, sleep patterns, as well as sleep length have been shown to affect the GPA of students in the college setting (Borisenkov, Mikhail , Perminova, Elena , Kosova,, 2010). For example, one study found that students between the ages of 11 and 23 years old, who were identified as having low achievement, had 12 minutes less sleep when compared to students identified as having high achievement (Borisenkov, Mikhail , Perminova, Elena , Kosova, 2010). Research has