Sleep Quality and Cognitive Failure among College Students

Sleep gives refreshment to do any activities in a better way. Sleep quality is when an individual can maintain and sustain their sleep in depth manner. Cognition involves mental operation linked to acquired knowledge and information processing. Cognitive failure refers forgetting something in our day to day life. The purpose of the present study was to find out the nature and extend of sleep quality and cognitive failure among colleges students. This study examines the relationship between sleep quality and cognitive failure. The current study adopts correlation research design. The tools used for the research were cognitive failure questionnaire and sleep quality scale. This study used convenient sampling through 722 data was collected. SPSS-21- statistical software techniques of Spearman’s rank order correlation, Mann Whitney U test, and Kruskal Wallis H test were used to analyze the data. The result of this study indicates that there is a strong positive correlation between sleep quality and cognitive failure. The findings show that college students have low sleep problems and low cognitive failure.