THE FACTORS AFFECTED TOWARDS THE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION LEVELS FOR GENERAL ELECTION OF NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE PEOPLE OF NONGBUA LAMPHU PROVINCE IN B.E.2566

Abstract

The main objectives of this research were (1) to study the factors affected towards the political participation level for general election in B.E.2566 of the people in Nongbua Lamphu Province include personal factors, economic factors, society, political psychology factors, political environment factors and level of political participation for election of members of the representatives for people of Nongbua Lamphu Province in B.E.2566, (2) to study the relation between political psychological factors, political environment factors and the level of political participation in election of members for representatives of people in Nongbua Lamphu Province for B.E.2566 and (3) to study predictive influence of political psychology factors and elements of political environment factors on political participation for the election of members of representatives for people of Nongbua Lampnu Province in B.E.2566, the research methodology was quantitative research approach in the form of predictive relation by using a multi-layer cluster sampling technique include cluster sampling or stratified random sampling areas and simple random sampling technique by using questionnaires on testing for determination of reliability of the  questionnaires and received the IOC AT 0.93 level. The sampling were 400 persons from the people with the right of vote for election the members of representatives for Nongbua Lamphu Province in B.E.2566 of 3 electoral districts. The collecting of data was on May to July of B.E.2566. The statistics using for data analysis included description, percentage, frequency, mean and standard deviation the hypothesis testing included t- test and F- test. The correlation coefficient used Pearson product and finding the predictive used multiple regression analysis.

The results of findings here as follows: The 7 independent variables were as follows: (1) political beliefs and attitudes, (2) political interest,
(3) political behavior, (4) democratic political ideology, (5) roles of political parties, (6) political culture for democratic politics and (7) political matter influenced towards the levels of participation for polities on election for the percentage of 87 and were on statistical significance AT 0.05 level by the 7 independent variables as mentioned above.