Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 6, Issue 3, DIP: 18.01.039/20180603 DOI: 10.25215/0603.039 http://www.ijip.in | July-September, 2018 © 2018 Samyukta, A, & D'Souza, L; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Assessment of Sleep Quality among College Students: Influence of Select Demographic Factors Samyukta A 1 *, Lancy D’Souza 2 * ABSTRACT Present study attempted to find out the extent of sleep quality among students studying in Mysuru and Bengaluru cities. The sample consisted of 290 students pursuing various courses and aged between 18-22 years. They were selected from Mysuru and Bengaluru cities of Karnataka city through simple random sampling. The students answered Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI-1989) scale which measured global sleep quality. Results revealed that an alarming 74.8% of the selected students in the present study had poor sleep quality. Domicile of the college students had significant influence over sleep quality, students from urban area had poor sleep quality followed by students from rural and semi urban areas. Other factors-gender, age, and course pursued did not have significant influence over sleep quality of the college students. Keywords: Sleep quality, college students College life is accompanied by many new stressful challenges, with increased freedom, self- responsibility, disorganized lifestyle, variable schedules, repeated deadlines, dormitory living, and social and academic obligations. In order to be able to cope with these challenges, students voluntarily alter their sleeping habits, due to which many valuable hours which are supposed to be spent in sleeping are lost in socializing, accessing internet, and other various activities. In public health domain, quality of sleep acquires a major position. Though enough knowledge on sleep and sleep quality is wide spread, today we are finding many sleep related disorders especially in young adults and aged. Having low sleep quality is becoming global public health problem (Araújo et al, 2013). As of now, the sleep duration was found to diminish with age and the most noteworthy prevalence of poor sleep quality was found to occur among older adolescents. The pervasiveness of poor sleep quality among adolescents and youths is high and fluctuates from 1 I SS Student, Post Graduate Dept. of Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysore, India 2 Associate Professor of Psychology, Maharaja’s College, University of Mysore, Mysore, India *Responding Author Received: July 14, 2018; Revision Received: July 20, 2018; Accepted: August 5, 2018