HUBUNGAN KECENDERUNGAN KECANDUAN INTERNET DAN KUALITAS TIDUR PADA REMAJA PEMAIN GAME ONLINE

This study aims to empirically examine the relationship between internet addiction tendencies and sleep quality in adolescent online game players. This study was conducted based on adolescents’ poor sleep quality caused by internet addiction tendencies through playing online games. Internet addiction is a person's inability to control internet use. Internet addiction can cause very serious psychological problems as well as functional disorders and dysfunction in daily activities. This study used a quantitative method with 115 respondents obtained through a purposive sampling technique. The characteristics of the respondents were late adolescent subjects with age range of 18-22 years and playing online games for a minimum of 3-4 hours a day. Hypothesis testing by using Pearson correlation test showed a positive relationship between internet addiction tendencies and sleep quality in adolescent online game players.