Browsing by Author "Maisonlahti, Victor"

Tiivistelmä - Referat - Abstract Goals. The goal of this thesis was to study connections a regular sleep schedule, and social media usage before sleeping, and after waking up. Additionally, the thesis aims to portray the nature and frequency of social media usage occurring in the respondents’ homes. The nature of social media usage was described with situations in which the respondents used social media in their home, and how frequent their social media usage was. As social media is becoming a bigger part of peoples’ lives, the more important it becomes to study its effects on the lives of people. Methods. This thesis was conducted as a quantitative study. The results of an inquiry conducted by Helsingin Sanomat in 2016, was used as data for this study. The inquiry was conducted on the website of Helsingin Sanomat, and was answered by 13438 respondents. A majority of the respondents were women (77%) and lived in Uusimaa (51%). Hereby the results of this study cannot be generalized to the entire population of Finland. The data was analyzed with the help of descriptive statistics, Pearson Chi-square test and cross tabulation. Results and conclusions. The findings of the study suggest that social media usage before sleep, and after waking up has a statistically significant connection with the sleeping schedule of the respondents. With the help of cross tabulation, the study was able to conclude that respondents who used social media before sleep and after waking up where more likely to have an irregular sleeping schedule. According to the findings, social media was used at home by the respondents fairly frequently. 29% of respondents claimed to have used social media at home “every now and then” (FI: “vähän väliä”). 36% claimed to have used it every few hours (FI: “Muutaman tunnin välein”). Social media usage was an activity that was practiced side by side with other everyday activities such as watching television, or when preparing for bedtime or after waking up. The results show us that social media in fact does have a connection to the completion of daily routines. We can use the information it as a foundation for future research.