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Samyukta, A and Lancy D’Souza
University of Mysore, Mysore
The current study is aimed at finding out the relationship between Facebook addiction
and sleep quality among the graduate students in Mysuru. The sample consisted of
166 students pursuing various courses aged between 17- 25 years, selected through
simple random sampling. The students completed The Bergen Facebook Addiction
Scale (2012) and Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI 1989). Facebook addiction
scale measured addiction in six elements –salience, mood modification, tolerance,
withdrawal, conflict and relapse) and PSQI measured global sleep quality. Pearson’s
product moment correlation was employed to find out the relationship between the
dimensions of Facebook addiction and sleep quality. Stepwise multiple regressions
were used to find the major predictors of sleep quality by the dimensions of Facebook
addiction. Results revealed that all the elements of Facebook addiction correlated
with sleep quality, higher the addiction poorer was the sleep quality. Further, stepwise
multiple regressions revealed that only two elements of Facebook addiction were found
to be the best predictors of sleep quality. Students pursuing commerce and management
had poorer sleep quality and higher Facebook addiction compared to students pursuing
arts, science and other courses. Gender did not have significant influence over sleep
quality and Facebook addiction.
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