Social Media Impact on Students Academic Performance Based on Sleeping Hours
A. Fedrick Akshay A1, S. Sudha2, S. Ajit3

1A. Fedrick Akshay, Department of MBA, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
2S. Sudha, Department of MBA, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
3S. Ajit, Department of MBA, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
Manuscript received on 04 December 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 23 December 2019 | Manuscript Published on 31 December 2019 | PP: 968-971 | Volume-8 Issue-4S2 December 2019 | Retrieval Number: D11841284S219/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.D1184.1284S219
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Abstract: Social media is an effective communication tool for the people to communicate with others all over the world, the evolution of social media emerges day to day mostly by the students than the working people. This research is constructed to find the effects of social media on the academic performance of the students based on their daily activities and sleeping hours. It is descriptive based research design. The sample of 160 students of 87 males and 73 females from various courses such as Engineering, Management, Arts and Science has been covered from different colleges in Chennai using non-probabilistic convenient sampling. The data is collected from the students by developing 23 questions in a questionnaire and distributed via both online and offline and analysed using Pearson’s correlation of partial and bivariate on various variables on SPSS V23. The result shows there is a significant relationship between sleeping hours and Usage rate on social media. It also reveals that the sleeping hours has a direct effect on the variables such as Academic performance level, Interaction with teachers, Concentration level on class lectures and stressed, depressed, sleepiness rate of students.
Keywords: Social Media, Students’ Academic Performance, Sleeping Hours, Concentration And Interaction To Lectures, Social Media Addictions.
Scope of the Article: Social Sciences