Sleep Deprivation and Its Causes Among enior High Students

A Concept Paper

Presented to
Dr. Melophyl Baguio
Ateneo de Zamboanga University
Zamboanga City

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for

Academic Writing 121
Senior High School
Ateneo de Zamboanga University
Zamboanga City

By:

Doctor, Ian Mark

Elvas, Recor Frank A.

Grade 12 STEM – Andlauer

Senior High School
October 06, 2018
 Chapter I

Introduction

Background of the Study

Are you getting enough sleep every night? Do you think that 5 hours of sleep

is enough to reboot your energy level? No, it is not. Yolanda Smith stated that “there

are various factors that may cause an individual to get insufficient sleep and lead to

sleep deprivation, including environmental, habitual, medical and psychological

causes” (August 2018). These include extreme temperatures, a loud neighborhood,

or sharing a bed with a partner that snores, and especially parents who commonly

experience sleep deprivation, that will wake up any time at the night to feed or care

an infant.

In an article by Kathleen Davis, entitled What's to Know About Sleep

Deprivation?, it is stated there that “sleep deprivation occurs when you do not have

enough sleep at night.” Some people may consider sleep as a waste of time and do

other things like entertainment, educational goals, or money-making pursuits. This

kind of problem is most likely to be seen in teenagers and young adults, because at

their age, they do a lot of things that will make them sleep deprived like school works,

shift work, family obligation or demanding jobs and many more.

Staring at screens with our gadgets can also lead to sleep deprivation. It can

brought myriads of stressors. Blue light, emitted from all digital devices with screens,

is a proven enemy of sleep. It sends signals to your brain to limit the creation of

melatonin, the body’s natural sleep regulator (Nectar, 2018).

Significance of the Study

This study will benefit to all of the students, not only in senior high, but also in

other levels. First of all, this will truly help the families of the students. This will succor

in making the parents fully realize what causes their children sleep deprived; they

will then know what actions must be done, thus making their relationships stronger.

According to Dr. Matthews (2008), “When parents are aware of the problems within

or that concern with their children, and are then solving it, this will eliminate isolation,

loneliness and alienation of their children. Their time with their children will become

longer than usual.” As for the school, academics-wise, this study will help the

institution come up solutions to the addressed problem/s to not only improve the

welfare of their students themselves, but also for the betterment of the institution

itself.

The respondents will also benefit from this study for they will have more

knowledge in regards with this matter, sleep deprivation, which is common among

students, and one of the intriguing issues and problems students are facing

nowadays. Lastly, this study will benefit the researchers. This is because this study

will help them deeply understand the problem or the matter, sleep deprivation.

Statement of the Problem

This research paper aims to answer the following questions:

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 Chapter II

Research Methodology

Research Design

The researchers will utilize a non-experimental descriptive quantitative

approach design for the study. Quantitative type of research emphasizes objective

measurements and the statistical, mathematical, or numerical analysis of data

collected through polls, questionnaires, and surveys, or by manipulating pre-existing

statistical data using computational techniques (Babbie, 2010) It is also a type of

research that focuses on gathering numerical data and generalizing it across groups

of people or to explain a particular phenomenon. This study is a descriptive one

since this establishes only association between variables which are Sleep

Deprivation and the causes of it among the senior high students.

Research Locale and Respondents

The research will be conducted at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University

located at La Purisima Street, Zamboanga City. The respondents of this study will

be the Senior High School body, students from Grades 11 and 12 coming from

different strands (STEM, ABM, HUMS and TVL) of Ateneo de Zamboanga

University.

In finding out what the sample size will be from the population, the

researchers use the Slovin’s formula. The population of the said body is … Using
the said formula, the researchers will now know the number of samples or

respondents who will participate in this study. There will be … student who will be

the respondents of this study.

Sampling Technique

In choosing the sample of respondents, the researchers will use systematic

sampling in the study. Investopedia (n.d) stated that “systematic sampling is a type

of probability sampling method in which sample members from a larger population

are selected according to a random starting point and a fixed, periodic interval.”

Given that there are … senior high school students of Ateneo de Zamboanga

University and … students, using the Slovin’s formula, who will be the respondents

of this study, the researchers will now be able to know what the nth number is or the

interval is. Every …th number on the list, they will be the respondents of the study.

Data Collection and Procedure

The researchers will use an instrument which is a survey to gather data from

the respondents, wherein they will answer 10 questions that are listed on the

questionnaire concerning sleep deprivation. The questions will arranged in a form of

from general-specific way. This is to help the respondents answer the questions in

a straight direction without having difficulties and underlying concerns in answering

those. The answers will be in a format of Likert Scale. This ranges from 1 – 5; 1 will
be the lowest and 5 will be the polar one. Technically, these questions will be close-

ended ones.

Data Analysis

In doing the analysis, the researcher takes the following steps: 1) Classifying

the factors that affect their intrinsic motivation; 2) Analyzing the data by ranking the

different factors with respect to recognition as a variable; 3) Analyzing the context of

recognition, identifying the differences between the different factors gathered based

on the participants’ responses; and 4) Drawing conclusion and suggestion based on

the data analysis.

 References

Babbie, E. R. (2010). Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper:

Quantitative Methods. Retrieved from

https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/quantitative.

Investopedia (n.d.). Systematic Sampling. Retrieved from

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/systematic-sampling.asp.

Matthews, D. W. (2008). Strengthening Family Relationships. Retrieved from

http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/1229-strengthening-family-

relationships.