Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China.

In recent decades, political participation amongst young people has attracted much academic research in established democracies. However, as an understudied area in China especially in Hebei province, political participation of public university undergraduates is in low level. Thus, this article con...

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Main Authors: Yang, Yanan, Xia, Nan, Ahmad, Zaid, Jawan, Jayum, Talib, Ahmad Tarmizi
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Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2018
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author Yang, Yanan
Xia, Nan
Ahmad, Zaid
Jawan, Jayum
Talib, Ahmad Tarmizi
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Xia, Nan
Ahmad, Zaid
Jawan, Jayum
Talib, Ahmad Tarmizi
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description In recent decades, political participation amongst young people has attracted much academic research in established democracies. However, as an understudied area in China especially in Hebei province, political participation of public university undergraduates is in low level. Thus, this article concerns the political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei province of China. The objective of this article is to identify the influential factors and determine the principal influential factor to students’ political participation in the public university of Hebei province. Therefore, 1990 respondents were selected based on the cluster sampling method, the main statistical method for evaluation of research hypotheses is by the PLS-SEM. Findings of this study indicate that political education has neither effect nor relation to political participation, whereas university identity, experience, major integrated undertake directly function on political participation. Moreover, political competence is the most important for students’ political participation in the public universities of Hebei province, China. Political value cognitive ability is the most important competence which influences the level of political participation among all involved factors in influencing students’ political participation in Hebei public universities according to the results of Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Additionally, the author suggested that in order to improve students’ participatory level, enhancing capability of students is a necessary way.
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spelling upm-1188452025-08-26T08:20:42Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/118845/ Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China. Yang, Yanan Xia, Nan Ahmad, Zaid Jawan, Jayum Talib, Ahmad Tarmizi In recent decades, political participation amongst young people has attracted much academic research in established democracies. However, as an understudied area in China especially in Hebei province, political participation of public university undergraduates is in low level. Thus, this article concerns the political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei province of China. The objective of this article is to identify the influential factors and determine the principal influential factor to students’ political participation in the public university of Hebei province. Therefore, 1990 respondents were selected based on the cluster sampling method, the main statistical method for evaluation of research hypotheses is by the PLS-SEM. Findings of this study indicate that political education has neither effect nor relation to political participation, whereas university identity, experience, major integrated undertake directly function on political participation. Moreover, political competence is the most important for students’ political participation in the public universities of Hebei province, China. Political value cognitive ability is the most important competence which influences the level of political participation among all involved factors in influencing students’ political participation in Hebei public universities according to the results of Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Additionally, the author suggested that in order to improve students’ participatory level, enhancing capability of students is a necessary way. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/118845/1/118845.pdf Yang, Yanan and Xia, Nan and Ahmad, Zaid and Jawan, Jayum and Talib, Ahmad Tarmizi (2018) Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China. Journal of Politics and Law, 11 (4). pp. 77-88. ISSN 1913-9055 https://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jpl/article/view/0/37697 10.5539/jpl.v11n4p77
spellingShingle Yang, Yanan
Xia, Nan
Ahmad, Zaid
Jawan, Jayum
Talib, Ahmad Tarmizi
Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China.
title Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China.
title_full Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China.
title_fullStr Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China.
title_full_unstemmed Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China.
title_short Influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei Province, China.
title_sort influential factors on political participation of public university undergraduates in hebei province, china.
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