SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

Who had the worst sleep? Male or Female.

PSYC 0103

Group Research Assignment

Group Members

Wong Yun Shi 0315225

Karen Kong Chai Ni 0315480

Muhammad Haziq bin Hj Zariful 0314131

 Cassandra Wong XinYue 0313365

Wong Voon Yin 0315151

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Acknowledgement

First, we would like to express our deepest appreciation to all those who had

helped us complete this report. We would especially like to give a special gratitude

towards our lecturer, Miss Pang Chia Yee, whose contribution in stimulating

suggestions and encouragement, also helped us to coordinate our project.

We would also like to thank all the team mates, Cassandra Wong, Chloe

Wong, Karen Kong, Voon Yin and Haziq Zariful, who helped each other assemble the

parts of the report, gave useful suggestions to one another and also give their best

efforts to work on this research and report.

Last and for most, we would like to thank all the participants involved to help

us do the survey in this study for their time for without their understanding and

support towards us in completing this project, we could not complete our assignment.

Thank you.

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Table of Contents

Content Page

Acknowledgement ii

Table of Content iii

Abstract iv

Introduction v

Method 1

Participants 1

Materials/Apparatus 1

Procedure 1

Results 2-7

Discussion 9-10

References 11

Appendix 12

Appendix A: Questionnaire 12-13

Appendix B: Raw Data 14-18

Appendix C: Calculation of Data 18-22

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AbstractSleep is an essential element for a human's mental & physical growth and

development for both male and female. Through our literature searches, female has

the more problems in sleeping than male. Therefore, this study examined whether

female or male get more problems in sleeping. Questionnaires and surveys about

sleeping habits and sleeping conditions were prepared. One hundred questionnaires

were given out to the students of Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus to fill up. It is

conducted around the school from the date 10th of January to 16th of January 2014.

Besides handing questionnaire papers around the school, the survey was also

distributed online, where there were 68 people participants. The main hypothesis of

our experiment is that female have more troubles in falling asleep at night than male.

Keywords: Sleep, male, female, Problems in sleeping, sleeping habits, sleeping

conditions

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IntroductionWhat is sleep? According to the Oxford Dictionary, it is quoted as ‘a condition

of body and mind which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the

nervous system is inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and

consciousness practically suspended.’ Sleep is one of the main necessities in a

human’s life. It is a physiological and psychological requirement. A good night’s

sleep helps in retrieving memory, remembering events and to restore the energy of

one man’s body. People cannot say that everyone has a good night rest every night,

there are some people who are facing sleeping difficulties every day and most of us

have experienced trouble sleeping at one time or another. This is normal and usually

temporary, due to stress. But if sleep problems happens all the time and interfere with

your daily life, you may be suffering from sleeping disorder. The lack of quality sleep

can have a negative impact on your emotional balance, and also on your health.

So, for this assignment given by Miss Pang, researchers had decided to do a

survey on ‘Sleep’. The researchers would like to find out whether if male or female

have more troubles or problems in sleeping. From the given answers and feedback

from students based on the questionnaire and online survey, researchers can get an

answer to see either male or female have more troubles in sleeping at night. So

through this assignment, the researchers hope to find out the answers through the

questionnaire questions and online survey.

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