INTERNET ADDICTION AND SLEEP QUALITY AMONG STUDENTS: A STUDY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The study was conducted to explore the effects of internet addiction on sleep quality among university students. The sample of this cross-sectional study was consisted of 100 students of different public and private universities and colleges of Multan city. The students of B.S and M.Phill level were studied in this study whose age range was 18-30 years. The Internet Addiction Test developed by Young (1998) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire (PSQI) a self-report questionnaire developed by Buysse (1989) were used as research instruments to investigate the variables. All possible ethical considerations were taken in this study. The findings of this study revealed positive correlation between internet addiction and poor sleep quality among students. Ther was also found that the students of public and private sectors have no significant difference on internet addiction and it was also found that there was no difference between the student of BS and M. Phill classes on internet addiction. I was also revealed by findings that adult students have higher level of internet addiction as compared to adolescent students and the internet addiction have significant effect on sleep quality and students with high internet addiction showed daytime dysfunction, poor subjective sleep quality and use of sleep medications.