Abstract:
Sleep has been identified by elite athletes, coaches, and sports trainers as a critical component for
training and competition. Despite anecdotal evidence suggesting that athletes are concerned
about the impact that inadequate sleep can have upon performance. The researcher have a
problem is have the relationship between sleeping behavior and sport performance. The
objective of this study examined association sleepiness behavior and sport performance among
university student. To achieve above objectives, the researcher build up three hypotheses. There
are have or haven‟t a relationship between sport performance and sleep behavior, have or haven‟t
a relationship between sleep quality and sport performance, have or haven‟t a relationship
between daytime sleepiness and sport performance. This research is based on two dimension of
sleeping behavior. There are sleep quality and daytime sleepiness. In this study, the researcher
used simple random method for data collection and selected 100 students among the University
of Kelaniya who are got the colors in colors ceremony in 2014. Data were analysis from SPSS
21.0 using correlation. According to the results of analysis there have significant relationship
between sleeping behavior and sport performance.
