Attentiveness to Democratic Politics of Youth in That Sub-district, Wang Hin District, Sisaket Province.

Abstract

The research “Attentiveness to democratic politics of youth in That Sub-district, Wang Hin District, Sisaket Province” aims to study the comment level affecting attentiveness to democratic politics of youths and ways of strengthening the political awareness of youth. The population in this study was 400 people from 3 schools in That Sub-district, Wang Hin District, Sisaket Province. The instruments used were questionnaires.The statistics used were percentage, mean and standard deviation. Research findings were as follows: The general information of informants showed that the majority are mostly female (56%) with the age of 16 years old (47%), the youth were mostly in Nakhon Si Lamduan Wittaya School (48%), and in grade 10 or Mattayom 4 (48%). The study revealed medium level of overall political attentiveness among youths.( x̅ = 3.15,S.D.= 0.92) When each factor was studied, educational institute was ranked the highest, followed by political awareness, mass media, family institute, and friends and community. The guidelines for strengthening the political awareness of youths: for educational institute, the learning source of democracy should be established for transferring the knowledge of politics. For friends and community, the sharing of political opinion and the democracy stage should be held. For Mass media, it should be emphasized on public relation to approach the youth groups by searching for motivation technique as well as providing convenience for political participation and political awareness for the youths to have stage to express their political opinions.