The impact of insomnia in the academic performance

Authors

  • German León Guerrero Universidad de Occidente Unidad Guasave
  • Violeta Kautzman Dimas Universidad de Occidente Unidad Guasave
  • Valentina López Parra Universidad de Occidente Unidad Guasave
  • Francisco Javier Coronel Pérez Universidad de Occidente Unidad Guasave

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1804/rpcc-uacjs.v5i2.92

Keywords:

Retention, insomnia, academic performance, test

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determinate the impact of insomnia of university students and their school performance. It was done under a qualitative-descriptive approach.We applied a test named “insomnia instrument measures”. ISI (Insomia Severity Index) with their respective correction and interpretation of the kind of insomia and its values. There were 300 students in the initial simple, but only 97 were taken as study objects.Subsequently, we made another test to these subjects for the purpose of knowing in which areas they were having problems. The results established that the cognitive processes and the information processing of the individuals are affected by sleep deprivation, which it was producing negative progressive changes in these functions. Referring that these changes aren’t favorable for retention and development of attention in their reality, much less in academic performance.

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Published

2014-11-28

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2014): Julio-Diciembre de 2014

Section

Investigación empírica y análisis teórico

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