Investigating social factors related to youth political participation Case study: 29-15 year old youth in Ardabil
محورهای موضوعی :
Nasrin Khodabakhshi
1
(
Assistant professor management Group, Islamic Azad university Khalkal
)
کلید واژه: religious beliefs, Mass Media, Social trust, political participation,
چکیده مقاله :
The aim of this study was to investigate the social factors related to the level of youth political participation. Analytic theories and models using the theories of theorists such as: C. Moore Martin Lipst, Daniel Lerner, Perry was presented. This research was conducted by survey method using a questionnaire technique. In order to improve the validity of the questionnaire measures, face validity was used and reliability was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which was 0.89 for the dependent variable and 82% for the independent variables. The statistical population of the study includes all young people aged 15-29 in Ardabil, whose number according to the registration statistics of Ardabil was 193826 (95822 boys and 98004 girls), of which 384 were using the Cochran's formula by cluster sampling. Several stages were selected as the sample. To analyze the data using two methods of descriptive and inferential statistics and using SPSS and Amos software, after preparing the matrix table, the information was arranged in one-dimensional and two-dimensional tables. Findings showed that the dependent variable of political participation has a significant relationship with the independent variables of mass media use (r = 0.746), religiosity (r = 0.425) and social trust (r = 0.712).
