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Sleep Loss

Effect of Technology

Busy Schedules

Borlase, Brigid Jane,

Philippa Hellen Gander,
and Rosemary Helen
Gibson. Effects of
School Start Times and
Technology use on
Teenagers Sleep.

This study
conrms that early
school start times
and having
entertainment and
communication
technologies in the
bedroom are
associated with
restricted sleep and
increased sleepiness
among teenagers.
(51)

Among Year 9
students, the risk of
daytime sleepiness
was strongly
associated with more
technologies in the
bedroom. Evening
tendency was
associated with being
female, and with
medium or high
number of
technologies. The
ndings were similar
for Year 11 students.
The only signicant
nding among Year
12 students was a
greater evening
tendency for girls.
There were no
signicant
associations between
technologies and
either
morning/evening
tendency or daytime
sleepiness. (50)

Poorer social
regulation and
irregular exposure
to time cues have
been related to
sleep disruption
among teenagers.
(52)

Canan, Faith. Internet

Addiction and Sleep
Disturbance Among
Turkish High School
Students.

Excessive use of
computer or online
games has been
reported to be
associated with later
bedtimes on
weekend days, later
waking times on
weekend days, and
longer sleep onset
latency. (212)

In the current study,

Internet addiction was
found to be related to
impaired sleep among
adolescents. The
relationship between
problematic Internet
use, the importance of
which is increasing
with developing
Internet-related
technology, and an
important health

Excessive or
problematic use of
the Internet has
been a topic of
discussion in the
academic literature
for more than a
decade. A
considerable
amount of
literature
published so far on
Internet addiction

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problem, sleep
disturbance, should be
examined with
particular focus on the
causality. (212)

Hansen, Martha. The

Impact of School Daily
Schedule on Adolescent
Sleep.

The combination of
delayed circadian
sleep phase and
early start times at
high schools in the
United States causes
adolescents to lose
sleep during the
school week.
Chronic partial sleep
loss has negative
effects on
neurocognitive
performance, mood,
and health. (1555)

Nolan, Heather.
Adolescents sleep
behaviors and perceptions
on sleep.

Adolescents who
consistently get less
than 8 hours of sleep
miss out on the last
2 hours of sleep,
which are the most
important for storing
new information.
Three major reviews
of sleep loss and
academic

reveals that it is a
worldwide
phenomenon.
Although a
standardized
denition has not
been uniformly
agreed upon, it is
generally
recognized that
problematic
Internet use causes
progressive
deterioration in
work, school,
social and family
functioning.
(210)
Earlier bedtimes
might have been
difficult to achieve
because of
academic
(homework) and
social
Influences.
(1559)

Other disruptions to
the sleep environment
include activities that
may take place in bed
such as watching
television, eating,
working on
schoolwork, or
talking on the phone.
(225)

A variety of
factors affect the
quantity and
quality of
adolescents sleep,
including stress,
obstructive sleep
apnea, caffeine
consumption,
alcohol
consumption,

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performance all
concluded that sleep
deprivation affected
school performance
through lower
grades; decreased
alertness and
concentration; and
an increase in anger,
impulsivity, and
sadness. (225)

exercise behaviors,
jobs, homework,
sports, poor time
management
skills, and school
start times. The
most obvious
factors affecting
the quantity of
sleep in youths are
when they go to
bed and when they
arise. (225)

Paraskakis, Emmanouil.
Siesta and Sleep
Patterns in a Sample of
Adolescents in Greece

In populations that
practice siesta it
seems that the
midday nap is a
substantial
component of sleep
and not a
consequence of
night sleep
deprivation nor
correlated with
increased daytime
sleepiness. (691)

Male students,
older adolescents
and residents of
towns went to bed
later than female
students, younger
adolescents and
residents of
villages. (690)

Shin, Chol. Sleep

Habits, Excessive
Daytime Sleepiness and
School Performance in
High School Students.

In the present study

nearly one-third of
students go to bed
after midnight and
more than 50% get
up before 7:00a.m.
Thus, mean total
sleep time of all
students was
6.4h/day, which may
be insufcient for
adolescence during
puberty. (453)

This insufcient
sleep in
adolescents may
be due to the
school schedules
requiring them to
wake up earlier,
increased
academic demands
requiring them to
stay up late,
expanding social
opportunities, and
increased access to
drugs and alcohol.
Arakawa also
reported that
bedtimes became

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signicantly later,
accompanied by
signicant
increases in sleep
debt as grade
levels rose at
junior high school
in Japan. (453)