FACTORS PROMOTING POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTHS IN SAMUT PRAKAN PROVINCE

Abstract

The objectives of this article were to study the opinions on the political consciousness of children and youths in Samut Prakan Province and to study factors that promoted political awareness of children and youths in Samut Prakan Province through mixed research methods. The qualitative research collected data by in-depth interviews with 19 key informants and 8 participants in a focus group discussion.  Data were analyzed by descriptive content analysis. The quantitative research used a questionnaire with total confidence of 0.984 to collect data from 397 secondary school students affiliated with the Samut Prakan Secondary Education Area Office. The data was analyzed by determining frequency percentage, mean, and standard deviation.

The study's results found that the overall opinions on the political consciousness of children and youths in Samut Prakan Province were high. Factors that promoted political consciousness of children and youths in Samut Prakan Province. Factors that encouraged political consciousness of children and youths in Samut Prakan Province. There was a linear relationship with the group of independent variables. With a statistically significant value at the 0.01 level and the ability to create linear prediction equations. From the multiple regression analysis, we can calculate the multiple correlation coefficient. The variables that had a positive relationship with factors that promoted political consciousness of children and youths in Samut Prakan Province had statistically significant values at the 0.01 level, including political knowledge (x1), political understanding (x2), political attitude (x3), political participation (x4) were factors that determined political consciousness of children and youths in Samut Prakan Province.