TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating the effects of social media usage on sleep quality
AU - Kaimal, Dinesh
AU - Sajja, Ravi Teja
AU - Sasangohar, Farzan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2017 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Social media usage is widespread among young adults. While the effects of social media usage on depression have been documented, studies to investigate the effects on sleep quality are largely absent. As part of the requirements for a graduate course at Texas A&M University, a user study was conducted to investigate whether usage of social media before bed time would result in sleep disturbance and diminished sleep quality. Ten participants were asked to not use social media before bed (baseline) for one week and use several popular applications for three weeks. While the effects were not statistically significant, social media usage before sleep might still negatively affect sleep quality. Further research with an increased sample size conducted over a longer period is warranted to investigate such effects.
AB - Social media usage is widespread among young adults. While the effects of social media usage on depression have been documented, studies to investigate the effects on sleep quality are largely absent. As part of the requirements for a graduate course at Texas A&M University, a user study was conducted to investigate whether usage of social media before bed time would result in sleep disturbance and diminished sleep quality. Ten participants were asked to not use social media before bed (baseline) for one week and use several popular applications for three weeks. While the effects were not statistically significant, social media usage before sleep might still negatively affect sleep quality. Further research with an increased sample size conducted over a longer period is warranted to investigate such effects.
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U2 - 10.1177/1541931213601814
DO - 10.1177/1541931213601814
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85042491046
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 1327
EP - 1330
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2017 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017
PB - Human Factors an Ergonomics Society Inc.
T2 - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2017 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017
Y2 - 9 October 2017 through 13 October 2017
ER -