| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 心理學研究所 === 96 === The purposes of this study are to explore the relationship of the sleep pattern with academic performance, day time sleepiness and sleep quality in senior high school students. Data were collected by sleep pattern questionnaire of the adolescent. The participants included 1650 students form the 10th grade to 12th grade, recruited form senior high schools in Taipei. Using stratified cluster sampling method. There were 1308 of valid questionnaires obtained. The major results are as follow:
(1) The variablity of the sleep-wake pattern between weekdays and weekends has significant influences on academic performace in the evening type students.
(2) The variablity of the sleep-wake pattern during weekdays showed significant influences on academic performace in the morening type students.
(3) In both the high and low achievement motivation groups, sleep pattern showed no significant associations with academic performance.
(4) The mediation effect of daytime sleepiness and sleep quality were not proven in all the data analyses.
In coclusion, the results indicate that in evening type students, maintaining regularity of sleep pattern between weekdays and weekends would be beneficial to their academic performance; and in the morning type students, keeping regular weekday sleep-wake schedules seem to be more important for better academic performance. Therefore, when considering the influences on academic performance, regularity of sleep seem to be more important than quantity of sleep in high schoolers.
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