The Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Sleep Duration and Students' Academic Performance

Hengyu Zhu

2025

Abstract

With growing concerns about student health and academic achievement, this study explores the critical role of sleep quality in educational outcomes. The implications lie in the effects of sleep on cognitive function and emotional regulation necessary for learning. This article objectively measures, through questionnaires and a huge amount of data, the relationship between sleep patterns and academic indicators. The result of the research shows that there is a nonlinear relationship between sleep duration and academic achievement, which is especially prominent among younger primary school students with insufficient sleep. The authors found that alertness mediated the relationship between children's sleep quality and their academic performance when they were 10 to 12 years old, hence the need for sleep regularity to ensure academic success. Poor sleep patterns disrupt the biological clock, which negatively impacts cognitive functions responsible for learning. The conclusion outlines that good quality sleep, appropriate duration, and regularity are the factors that will help in achieving academic success. The study insinuates that for students to achieve full academic potential, sleep is of the essence and hence it should always be considered at an educational policy level. Mediating factors like stress, motivation, and learning strategies do need further analysis in later studies for the realization of focused educational interventions. Lastly, what the study insists on, is an overall approach: students' well-being and performance, taking sleep as the core of it, and invites further research into complex relationships between sleep and academic outcomes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zhu H. (2025). The Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Sleep Duration and Students' Academic Performance. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM; ISBN 978-989-758-791-7, SciTePress, pages 153-158. DOI: 10.5220/0014109600004942

in Bibtex Style

@conference{apmm25,
author={Hengyu Zhu},
title={The Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Sleep Duration and Students' Academic Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM},
year={2025},
pages={153-158},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014109600004942},
isbn={978-989-758-791-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM
TI - The Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Sleep Duration and Students' Academic Performance
SN - 978-989-758-791-7
AU - Zhu H.
PY - 2025
SP - 153
EP - 158
DO - 10.5220/0014109600004942
PB - SciTePress