The impact of insomnia in the academic performance
Journal Title: Revista de Psicología y Ciencias del Comportamiento de la Unidad Académica de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 2
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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German León Guerrero, Violeta Kautzman Dimas, Valentina López Parra, Francisco Javier Coronel Pérez
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