Impact of Smartphone Usage on Sleep Quality and Mental Wellbeing of School Students

Abstract

The present study investigates the impact of Smartphone usage on Sleep Quality and Mental Wellbeing among School Students. This study comprises of 150 school students as particularly selected through the technique of simple random sampling from Shree Bharath Vidyaashram CBSE Senior Secondary School, Pondicherry. Smartphone usage scale, the Warwick mental well-being scale and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was used to establish the relationship and predictive relationship among smartphone usage, sleep quality and mental wellbeing along with the demographic variables. The data analysis were done with MICRISOFT EXCEL to test descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Simple Linear Regression analysis. The findings revealed that smartphone usage as statistically both positive and negative significant relationship with quality of sleep and mental wellbeing among school students respectively. This study also found that the smartphone usage among school students had significant influence on students sleep quality and mental wellbeing and also reveals the statistical difference among those variables with respect to demographics. This study has a wide implication and recommendation to prevent students from excessive smartphone usage which leads to addictive behavior and also suggested to improve their quality of sleep and mental wellbeing among those emerging adolescents.