The Democratic Political Culture of the Undergraduate Students Mahidol University, Salaya Campus
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The purposes of this research were (1) to examine levels of the democratic political culture and the democratic political participation behavior, (2) to determine factors influencing the democratic political culture, and (3) to determine relationship between the democratic political culture and the democratic political participation behavior of undergraduate students. The sample size composed of 386 undergraduate students at Mahidol University, Salaya Campus. The statistical tools used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis, and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient at the .05 level of significance.
The results found that the democratic political culture and the democratic political participation behavior of the undergraduate students at Mahidol University, Salaya campus were at a high level. There were no significant relationships between the democratic political culture and the democratic political participation behaviors. In addition, the hypothesis testing indicated that the factors influencing democratic political culture of the undergraduate students composed of knowledge and understanding of democratic form of government, political socialization process, and personal factor concerning program of study.
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