Research On The Status Of Social Media Use And Subjective Well-being Of The Visually Impaired And The Relationship Between Them

The number of visually impaired people in my country has exceeded 17 million.They are limited by their own eyesight and have certain obstacles in obtaining information and socializing.With the development of media technology and the advancement of information accessibility,social media has penetrated the lives of the visually impaired,bringing more possibilities to them.The pursuit of happiness is an eternal topic.Fundamentally speaking,happiness is an individual’s inner satisfaction and pleasant feeling,so the discussion on subjective well-being and its influencing factors is favored by scholars.Many previous studies have shown that the use of social media has a significant positive impact on subjective well-being.Is this also true for the visually impaired? To study this issue,after sorting out the relevant literature,using the method of questionnaire survey,the visually impaired people’s use of social media and its relationship with subjective well-being were investigated and quantitatively analyzed.At the same time,to explore the influence path of social media use on subjective well-being,social support is introduced as an intermediary variable to explore the mediating role of social support in the process of visually impaired people’s subjective well-being.Through analysis,it is found that the main motivation for the visually impaired to use social media is the need for information acquisition and social maintenance,in addition to the need for leisure and entertainment.Based on these motivations,the visually impaired people’s use of social media mainly includes understanding news and information,contacting communications,and sharing their lives.The motives and behaviors of the visually impaired using social media have a significant positive impact on their subjective well-being.At the same time,the social media use motivation and behavior have a significant positive impact on their social support.The social support received by the visually impaired has a significant and positive effect on the perception and improvement of their subjective well-being,and It has a mediating effect.To verify the relationship between the use of social media and subjective well-being of the visually impaired in a more in-depth and specific manner,the in-depth interview method was also used,and 10 visually impaired persons were selected from the questionnaire survey sample to conduct interviews.Through interviews,it is found that social media is ubiquitous in the visually impaired group,which has a profound impact on the quality of life of the visually impaired.Using social media,their original interpersonal relationship has been changed,the scale of their social networking has been expanded,and their access to information has also been greatly improved.At the same time,the visually impaired have also received more social support through social media,which has improved their life satisfaction and a more positive mental state.This research puts the perspective on the use of social media by the visually impaired and hopes to guide the public to pay more attention to the visually impaired group and pay attention to their information accessibility needs so that the visually impaired group can better integrate into society more easily and have more sense of happiness and gain.