An Analysis of the Mechanism and Optimization Strategies of the Impact of College Students’ Social Media Experience on Subjective Well-being

Abstract

The current academic research on the correlation between social media and subjective well-being exhibits two notable features: On one hand, a large number of empirical studies focus on the impact of usage frequency and problematic usage behaviors on users’ psychology; on the other hand, there is still a significant lack of research on the association mechanism between different usage patterns of social media (such as active sharing and passive browsing) and subjective well-being, and the existing conclusions are highly divergent. Based on this research gap, our research team has constructed a multi-dimensional analysis framework to systematically examine the differentiated impacts of different social media usage behavior patterns on users’ subjective well-being and their internal mechanisms.