Uso de redes sociales y su relación con la calidad de sueño en estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

Social networks are platforms created on the Internet by individuals or organizations that connect based on common interests, while sleep quality refers to the fact of sleeping well at night and having a good performance throughout the day. That is why the objective of the study was to determine the relationship between the use of social networks and sleep quality in university students, variables that were measured through theSocial Network Addiction Scale (ARS) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, in a sampleof 104 students belonging to the career of information systems of a university in the city of Latacunga, the research used a quantitative approach, with a descriptivecorrelational level,as well as a field study and non-experimental, also presents a crosssectional design. The results showed that the evaluated students present a low level of addiction to social networks, however, in the quality of sleep, most students state that it deserves medical attention. In addition, it was found that there are no statistically significant differences between the mean of the quality of sleep in men with respect to women, in relation to the verification ofhypotheses, the use of social networks is related to the quality of sleep, therefore, it is deduced that, if there is a low positive correlation between these two variables, which determines that, the greater the use of social networks, the worse the quality of sleep in students of the information systems career.