University students’ sense of political efficacy In bangkok and its vicinity

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Wanlop Ratchattranon, Vacharin Chansilp

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The objectives of this research were to study the level of university students’ sense of political efficacy, compare university students’ sense of political efficacy by personal factors and examine an association between personal factors, political interest and sense of political efficacy of university students in Bangkok and its vicinity. The samples were 305 university students from 5 universities in Bangkok and its vicinity. The results of this research found that university students’ sense of political efficacy level in Bangkok and its vicinity was medium. From the comparison of sense of political efficacy classified by personal factors, it found that different gender and fathers’ occupation had different sense of political efficacy. Whereas, different religion, family income and mothers’ occupation had not different sense of political efficacy.  Political interest had an association with sense of political efficacy

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