Assessment of Sleep Stress Level and Time Management in Final Year University Students

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to determine the sleep qualities, time management skills and stress levels of final-year university students.

Material and Method: 330 final-year university students from Turkey participated to the study. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale was used to evaluate sleep quality, The Stress Coping Scale was used to evaluate stress levels, and Time Management Questionnaire was used to examine time management of the students.

Results: According to the analysis results, no statistically significant relationship was found between Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale, The Stress Coping Scale, Time Management Questionnaire (p>0.05). Also, sleep quality, stress levels and time management skills were not affected by gender, age, living environment and university department of the students. There was no statistically significant difference between these parameters (p>0.05).  However, a significant correlation was found between some items of the scales.

Discussion: It is planned to continue this type of researches on university students by taking into account the meaningful correlation results.