Impact of Social Media Addiction on Quality of Sleep among University Students: Gender and Socio-Economic Status are in Focus

Abstract

The current research was designed to elucidate the impact of frequent use of social media addiction on the quality of sleep-in relation with gender, age and the socio-economic status among university students.  For that purpose, a sample of (N=203) students was recruited by using purposive sampling technique. The overall study was quantitative and cross-section research design was used to carry out the study.  Two scales were administered to quantify the variables under investigation. The level of social media addiction was measured by using Social Media Addiction Scale (2015) by Tutgun and Deniz and Quality of Sleep was measured by using Sleep Quality Scale by Shin et al (2006). Both of the measures were valid and reliable. The results from the collected data were analyzed by using SPSS. The findings of the study revealed that the overall social media addiction level was higher among female students as compared with male students. Similarly, the quality of sleep was disturbed among female social media addicts. Lastly, the results showed that the individuals belonging upper class were more addict of social media and their quality of sleep was also disturbed. On the basis of the results, this revealed that the social media addition is a silent killer of sleep among the female and upper-class individuals. Hence, it concluded that to improve the sleep quality it is necessary to control the excessive use of social media addiction.