O USO DE REDES SOCIAIS SE RELACIONA COM UM BAIXO RENDIMENTO ACADÊMICO? REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA E ESTUDO EMPÍRICO

Abstract

With the advent of the 21st century, social networks are being used more and more. Thus, this course conclusion work aimed to investigate the impacts of social networks on the academic performance of university students and the mediating role of sleep quality. Therefore, two studies were carried out. In Study 1, a systematic review of a total of 88 articles was carried out, 23 studies were selected. The results showed that there is no consensus on the impact of using social networks on academic performance, but a strong association between poor sleep patterns and poor academic performance was found in the literature. In Study 2, a correlational study was carried out with 410 participants (M=23.65; SD=6.45). Data analyzes were performed using SPSS and AMOS software. Significant correlations were found between hours and addiction to networks, compulsive feelings (r = 0.36; p < 0.01) social consequences (r = 0.25; p < 0.01) and direct effects of addiction to social networks on sleep quality (γ = 0.26; 90% CI = 0.18; 0.34, p < 0.001) so the more students were addictive to the hammocks, the worse their sleep quality was.