Factors Influencing the Political Participation of the Elderly in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region
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The objectives of this research are as follows: (1) the level of the promoting factors from government’s policies, personal factors, and the environmental factors; and (2) the promoting factors, personal factors, and the environmental factors influencing the political participation of the Thai elderlies. In this quantitative research investigation, The techniques of multistage random sampling and purposive sampling were used to obtain 600 subjects. A questionnaire was used as a research instrument. Data were analyzed using percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The techniques of exploratory factor analysis and path analysis were also employed.
Findings are as follows: (1) The political participation of the elderlies under study exhibited the mean at a moderate level. The highest proportion exhibited political participation at a primary level with the mean at a moderate level. The political participation at a high level exhibited the mean at a low level. Personal factors affected political participation, the promoting factors from the government’s policies and the environmental factors with the mean at a high level respectively (2) The promoting factors from the government’s policies exhibited a direct effect on political participation was 0.257. The indirect effect was through personal factors and the environmental factors with the effect size of 0.135. The total effect was 0.392. The environmental effect exhibited a direct effect on political participation was 0.452. The indirect effect through personal factors was -0.114. The total effect was 0.338. Personal factors exhibited only a direct effect on political participation was -0.191. There was no indirect effect.
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