SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

Who had the worst sleep? Male or Female. PSYC 0103 Group Research Assignment

Group Members Wong Yun Shi 0315225 Karen Kong Chai Ni 0315480 Muhammad Haziq bin Hj Zariful 0314131 Cassandra Wong XinYue 0313365 Wong Voon Yin 0315151

Acknowledgement
First, we would like to express our deepest appreciation to all those who had helped us to complete this report. A special gratitude we would like to give to our lecturer, Miss Pang Chia Yee, who contribution in stimulating suggestions and encouragement, also helped us to coordinate our project. We would also like to thank all the team mates, Cassandra Wong, Chloe Wong, Karen Kong, Voon Yin and Haziq Zariful who help each others to assemble the parts and gave useful suggestion to one another also give the best efforts to work on this research and report. Last and for most, we would like to thank all the participants involved to help us do the survey in this study for their time. Without their understandings and support on us in completing this project, we could not complete our assignment. Thank you.

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Table of Contents

Content Acknowledgement Table of Content Abstract Introduction Method Participants Materials/Apparatus Procedure Results Discussion References Appendix Appendix A: Questionnaire Appendix B: Raw Data Appendix C: Calculation of Data ii iii iv v 1 1 1 1 2-7

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Abstract
Sleep is an essential element for human mental and physical growth and development for both male and female. Through our literature searches, female has the more problems in sleeping than male. Therefore, this study examined whether female or male get more problems in sleeping. Questionnaire and survey about sleeping habits and sleeping conditions were prepared. One hundred questionnaires were given out to the students of Taylors University Lakeside Campus to fill up. It is conducted around the school from the date 10th of January to 16th of January 2014. Besides handling questionnaire papers around the school, survey form was conducted online for the experiment, there were 68 people participated. The main hypothesis of our experiment is that female have more troubles in falling asleep at night than male.

Keywords: Sleep, male, female, Problems in sleeping, sleeping habits, sleeping conditions

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Introduction
What is sleep? According to the Oxford Dictionary, it is quoted as a condition of body and mind which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended. Sleep is one of the main necessities in a humans life. It is a physiological and psychological requirement. A good nights sleep helps in retrieving memory, remembering events and to restore the energy of one mans body. People cannot say that everyone has a good night rest every night, there are some people who are facing sleeping difficulties every day and most of us have experienced trouble sleeping at one time or another. This is normal and usually temporary, due to stress. But if sleep problems happens all the time and interfere with your daily life, you may be suffering from sleeping disorder. The lack of quality sleep can have a negative impact on your emotional balance, and also on your health. So, for this assignment given by Miss Pang, researchers had decided to do a survey on Sleep. The researchers would like to find out whether if male or female have more troubles or problems in sleeping. From the given answers and feedback from students based on the questionnaire and online survey, researchers can get an answer to see either male or female have more troubles in sleeping at night. So through this assignment, the researchers hope to find out the answers through the questionnaire questions and online survey.