Study On The Influence Factors Of College Students’ Political Efficacy

As an important part of political attitude and an important predictor of individual political behavior,political efficacy has always been a focus of western academic research.With the exploration and development of our country’s governance system and governance capacity modernization reform,Our country’s academic has gradually realized the importance of political efficacy in recent years,and began to put the vision of research into the sense of political efficiency.The group of college students is not only an important force in the future national and national construction,but also an important subject for the grassroots political participation of the country.Their political efficacy not only affects the development of basic national governance,but also affects the process of deepening reform comprehensively.This paper takes college students as the research object,analyzes the current situation of college students’ political efficacy,explores the influence factor of college students’ political efficacy and proposes the cultivation method,has strong realistic significance and theoretical value.Based on the existing classical scale,this study designed the college students’ political efficacy measurement scale,In the process of building a research framework,Introducing self-efficacy theory in the field of psychology to supplement and improve the existing theoretical research framework of political socialization,and explores the influencing factors of college students’ political efficacy.A total of 535 valid samples were collected by questionnaire survey of college students in 10 universities in Guangdong province.Based on the sample data,the multivariate linear regression equation and robust standard deviation plus OLS model were used to test the research hypothesis.The research results show that college students’ sense of internal political efficacy is slightly lower than the moderate level,The external political efficacy is slightly higher than the moderate level,the external political efficacy significantly higher than the internalpolitical efficacy;The residence and the social stratum of the family,frequency of Suggestions have been adopted in the family or school,whether the peer groups have ever get government’s response,frequency of using the media to watch the news,frequency of finding that “the general public opinions adopted by government” in the media,frequency of individual political participation,frequency of political participation,frequency of achieving government’s adoption or response have significantly positive influence on college students’ internal political efficacy and external political efficacy.Gender,political affiliation,frequency of political discussion between peer groups,peer group’s evaluation of college students’ political influence only have a significant positive influence on college students’ internal political efficacy,and have no significant influence on college students’ external political efficacy.Political trust only has a significant positive influence on college students’ external political efficacy and has no significant influence on college students’ internal political efficacy.Based on the above results,this study believes that we should give full play to the family,school,government and mass media’s political socialization function,take behavior shaping and model shaping as a breakthrough point,through political discussion behavior shaping,political participation behavior shaping,political authority model shaping and political participation model shaping to comprehensively improve the level of college students’ political efficacy.