Technology Effect on Sleep


By Alvin Jibi, Logan Tartt, Samara Cain, Nylah Hill- Researchers

October 20th, 2023


Aim: Samara 

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of technology on sleeping habits of high school students and teachers from SLCS. This will be done through a survey, with the goal of gaining insight into the relationship between  technology used and the quality and duration of sleep.


Hypothesis: Samara
High school students from SLCS that frequently use technology before bed are more unlikely to get roughly 7-8 hours of sleep than teachers from SLCS.


Procedure: Nylah

First the group created a survey that got the information of people throughout the school. We measure the results of the teacher as well as different students not within this psychology class. The essential procedure of this study is simply to gather data based on the technology use of adults as well as younger children. 

This is the list of questions used during the study:



These questions were answered from a scale of always, frequently, occasionally, rarely, or never based on their level of relatability to the question. The data was collected and observed for the results of the study


Results: Logan 

47.6 percent of participants said that they frequently  fall asleep while using their phone at night. 23.8 percent said that they always fall asleep while on their phone. 19 percent said that they rarely fall asleep while using their phone and 9.5 percent said they occasionally fall asleep while on their phone. 52.4 percent of people said that they frequently get the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep. 23.8 percent of people said they occasionally do while 14.3 percent said rarely in addition to 9.5 percent saying they always get the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep. 28.6 percent of people said that their phone rarely cuts into their sleeping time,another 28.6 percent said that it occasionally does, another 19 percent said that they never,14.3 percent said always, and lastly 9.5 percent said the phone cuts frequently into their sleeping time. 42.9 percent of people said that they occasionally feel well rested after they wake up,19 percent said rarely,28.6 percent said frequently,while the roughly 11 percent left either said they either rarely or never cut into screen time. 33.3 percent said that they always exceed 2 plus hour screen time on social media,23.8 percent said never,28.6 percent said frequently while 9.5 percent said frequently. The last few said rarely. 33.3 percent of people said that they frequently use streaming services on their phone,19 percent said always,another 19 percent said occasionally,14.3 percent said never,and another 14.3 percent said rarely. Between the results of the students and the teacher, there seemed to be a trend where the adults were a little less likely to use technology before bed in comparison to the students, however the data wasn't too significant to where there was a substantial difference. It was the same case with the prioritization with sleep as we say that more teachers were more likely to get 7-8 hours of sleep in comparison to students. Overall, it is safe to conclude that the hypothesis was correct and teachers get on average more sleep than students in SLCS. 


Conclusion/Implications: Alvin

Based on the results of this study, it shows us that the vast majority of the people in the study use technology enough to where it somewhat interferes with their sleep schedule a little bit. However, the hypothesis was proven correct as teachers have a bit more control with their use of technology than students and ended up getting more sleep. When we asked the question whether they used their phone right before they sleep, everyone at least to some degree said that they used their phone right before bed. Afterwards, we see a direct correlation when we ask whether people get the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep and there are only 9.5% of students and teachers that always get the recommended amount of sleep. There was also an even smaller percentage of people that said that they always feel well rested after waking up in the morning, showing that technology has a direct interference in one's sleeping habits. Based on the results of the study, we could improve our sleeping habits if we limited our use of technology right before bed and in general just limit our screen time to the best of our ability. For example, maybe we could leave a 1-2 hour restriction gap for technology right before you sleep.