TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Sleep in Predicting College Academic Performance
T2 - Is it a Unique Predictor?
AU - Taylor, Daniel J.
AU - Vatthauer, Karlyn E.
AU - Bramoweth, Adam D.
AU - Ruggero, Camilo
AU - Roane, Brandy
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - Few studies have looked at the predictability of academic performance (i.e., cumulative grade point average [GPA]) using sleep when common nonsleep predictors of academic performance are included. This project studied psychological, demographic, educational, and sleep risk factors of decreased academic performance in college undergraduates. Participants (N = 867) completed a questionnaire packet and sleep diary. It was hypothesized that low total sleep time (TST), increased sleep onset latency, later bedtimes, later wake times, and TST inconsistency would predict decreased academic performance. The most significant predictors of academic performance were high school GPA, standardized test scores (i.e., SAT/ACT), TST, time awake before arising (TWAK), TST inconsistency, and the quadratic terms of perceived stress (PSS) and TST.
AB - Few studies have looked at the predictability of academic performance (i.e., cumulative grade point average [GPA]) using sleep when common nonsleep predictors of academic performance are included. This project studied psychological, demographic, educational, and sleep risk factors of decreased academic performance in college undergraduates. Participants (N = 867) completed a questionnaire packet and sleep diary. It was hypothesized that low total sleep time (TST), increased sleep onset latency, later bedtimes, later wake times, and TST inconsistency would predict decreased academic performance. The most significant predictors of academic performance were high school GPA, standardized test scores (i.e., SAT/ACT), TST, time awake before arising (TWAK), TST inconsistency, and the quadratic terms of perceived stress (PSS) and TST.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878957683&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15402002.2011.602776
DO - 10.1080/15402002.2011.602776
M3 - Article
C2 - 23402597
AN - SCOPUS:84878957683
SN - 1540-2002
VL - 11
SP - 159
EP - 172
JO - Behavioral Sleep Medicine
JF - Behavioral Sleep Medicine
IS - 3
ER -