Internet Addiction and Sleep Quality among Post Graduate Students

The study intends to analyse internet addiction and sleep quality among post graduate students within 20-25 years of age group from different parts of Kerala. The sample includes 261 post graduate students were 78 males and 183 females. Internet Addiction Test (IAT) was developed by Young (1998) and it consists of 20 questions was adopted to evaluate the respondents’ level of internet addiction of the selected sample and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Buysse et.al., 1989) was used to assess the extent of sleep quality among the sample selected. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U Test and Spearman’s correlation test was used to study the data. The findings showed there was no significant relationship between internet addiction and sleep quality among post graduate students. The study further revealed that there is no significant difference between internet addiction and sleep quality of males and females.