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Study on the SNS Utilization, Interpersonal Relationship and Self-Esteem on Disabled Students

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2012, 13(3), pp.357-385
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Lee, Jiyeon 1 Jeong, Eun-Hee 1

1조선대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study tries finds out about the utilization of SNS in visually, physically disabled, and hearing impaired youth in middle-high school students and tries to find out about the characteristics of interpersonal relationships and self-esteem through the changes in disabled youths who use SNS. Also this study tries to find out about the characteristics of interpersonal relationships and self-esteem through seeing whether or not they use SNS. This study is a research was based on the middle-high school students in 3 special schools in Gwangju city for the visually, physically disabled, and hearing impaired. The research tool was a survey of 64 questions about the utilization of SNS, interpersonal relationships, and self-esteem. For the data processing, frequency analysis, t tests and Pearson correlation analysis was conducted according to the questions. The first study results was the 70% of disabled students used SNS, they mostly used types like CyWorld and KakaoTalk, and the utilized devices were smart phones and computers. The period of use of SNS was the highest for 1-3 years and most of the users used it less than 1 hour a day. SNS use is the most important purposes, interpersonal relationships, SNS mainly met through the normal people who had more. Learned through a friend of SNS meeting in everyday life, why does not maintain a direct interpersonal relationships because of a disability was due to being the unwiling. Many of the students who did not use SNS answered that they didn’t have a device or knew how to no use it. Second, students who used SNS had higher confidence, friendliness, openness and general interpersonal relationships, but both groups shaved low figures in interpersonal relationships overall. However, there were no differences in self-esteem in the two groups, and the figures were extremely low in both groups. Third, all disabled students whether or not they used SNS showed static relationships between interpersonal relationships and self-esteem and students with higher interpersonal relationships had higher self-esteem.

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