Smartphone addiction and sleep quality on academic performance of university students: An exploratory research

• Main Authors: Balan Rathakrishnan, Soon Singh Bikar Singh, Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin, Azizi Yahaya, Mohd Azrin Mohd Nasir, Fauziah Ibrahim, Zaizul Ab Rahman
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) 2021
• Subjects: LB5-3640 Theory and practice of education
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32260/3/Smartphone%20addiction%20and%20sleep%20quality%20on%20academic%20performance%20of%20university%20students_ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32260/1/Smartphone%20addiction%20and%20sleep%20quality%20on%20academic%20performance%20of%20university%20students.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32260/; https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/16/8291/htm; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168291
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between smartphone addiction, sleep quality, and academic performance. The study presented quantitative research on 323 students in a public university in Sabah to explore the relationship between smartphone addiction, sleep quality, and academic performance. A simple random sampling was used in the study. The Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were used in this study. SPSS was used as a tool of analysis for descriptive and inferential analysis. Pearson correlation was involved to test the hypothesis of the study. The result indicated that the greater the smartphone addiction, the lower the academic performance of university students. The finding also proved that students with poor sleep quality might exhibit low academic performance. Smartphone addiction was found to be associated with sleep quality where overusing smartphones was related to poor sleep quality in university students. On this basis, the problem of smartphone addiction and sleep quality should be tackled in order to improve the academic performance of university students and their overall health.