Disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are a volume adjustment method and a user terminal, said method comprising: detecting touch parameters inputted by touching a touch screen, said touch parameters comprising touch region and touch duration; determining whether the direction of motion of the center point of said touch region matches a preset direction; if the direction of motion of the center point of the touch region matches the preset direction, then according to a correlation between the preset duration and the magnitude of the volume adjustment, obtaining the volume adjustment magnitude corresponding to said touch duration; adjusting the current volume according to the volume adjustment magnitude corresponding to the touch duration. Hence, by means of the embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to rapidly and conveniently adjust volume.