Affecting Factors on Political Socialization, Political Identity and Politician Personality Trait of the Youths in Thailand
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The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship or predictability of the components of political socialization and political identity on politician personality traits. In order to enhance political socialization for affecting the current politician personality trait, the perception of the youths who are 15 – 25 years of age, must be considered. Consequently, the researcher collected the 1,200 respondents across Thailand country and analyzed the data by multi-regression analysis.
The findings indicated that the affecting factors of political socialization could significantly influenced and predicted to politician personality trait at Beta = .16, t = 4.26 (Sig .000). Moreover, the affecting factors in terms of family and social media also could significantly influenced to politician personality trait at Beta = .10 t = 3.16 (Sig .000) and Beta = .01 t = 2.88 (Sig .000), respectively. However, the components of political identity in terms of political value predicted significantly to politician personality trait at Beta = .50 t = 27.17 (Sig .000). Besides, political identity in terms of political value, political belief, political interest and political party system, predicted simultaneously and significantly to politician personality trait at R2 = .50, accumulated error = .42, F = 298.72 (Sig .000).
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