Date of Completion

2024

Document Type

Research Project

Degree Name

Grade 12

Keywords

sleep deprivation, learning capability, cognition, senior high school students, insomnia severity index, learning how to learn scale, weak negative relationship

Abstract

Sleep is a bodily function that’s vital to our health, especially to our cognition. Studies have shown that sleep deprivation can negatively impact our cognition, including our learning capability. Learning capability is our ability to acquire and process new information and apply it to our lives. There's still conflicting evidence about their relationship and no consensus in this case. With the Brain Plasticity Theory of Sleep, the level of sleep deprivation and learning capability of senior high school students at DLSMHSI, and the relationship of the two are investigated. With Proportional Quota Sampling, the researchers gathered 307 participants. They utilized Google Forms to create the survey, adapting two instruments: the Insomnia Severity Index to measure the level of the students' sleep deprivation, and the Learning How to Learn Scale (questions number 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, and 20) for their learning capability. The results report that the respondents are experiencing a moderate severity of clinical insomnia with a total mean of 25.76, and that they have a “High” level of learning capability with a mean of 3.83. For their relationship, they have a weak negative relationship with an r-value of -1.88, suggesting that although their relationship is weak and the effect may be subtle, sleep deprivation can still have an impact on learning capability, emphasizing the importance of sleep for cognition of students. Even with a high level of learning capability, and subtle effects of sleep deprivation, this small and not very noticeable problem may eventually escalate to a bigger problem.

First Advisor

James Arvin D. Rozul

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