The Affecting Factors on the Youth’s voting in Thailand

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  • สราวุฒิ งาหอม บัณฑิตวิทยาลัย มหาวิทยาลัยการจัดการและเทคโนโลยีอีสเทิร์น

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Political Participation, Voting

Abstract

The objective of this research is to recommend the affecting factors on political participation and voting to political parties and government organization for the usefulness of democracy system. The researcher developed 90 items from literature review before collected 300 respondents of first voting of youths in 2019, who lived in the area of Srisaket, Yasothorn, Amnatcharoen, and Ubonratchathanee province. The statistical analysis are frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation, and variance analysis. The results contributed the means of voting is high (3.55) while the means of online political participation and the effecting factors are moderate at 3.26 and 3.16, respectively. The three concepts related positively, highly and statistically significant at .01. Importantly, peer group, seeking information and political group also predicted voting at 66%. Hence, the political campaign for democracy voting, must provide the security area for youth in expressing political opinion.

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2021-06-18

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