Factors affecting the level of political participation of Youth in Hamadan province

The purpose of this research is to investigate the level of political participation of the youth of Hamadan province and the factors affecting it. In order to achieve the goal of the research, a descriptive-survey method was used. The statistical population studied in this research was all the youths aged 18 to 34 in Hamadan province, whose total number is 543,486 according to the statistics announced by the Iranian Statistics Center. A stratified-proportional random sampling method was used to select the research sample. The sample size of the research was estimated to be 384 people by using the sample estimation table from the Karajesi Morgan community, but with the aim of increasing reliability and reducing errors, 506 questionnaires were distributed, of which 475 questionnaires were collected. The information was collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. In general, the level of political participation of 232 people (48.4%) from the studied sample is very low, 84 people (17.7%) are low, 98 people (20.6%) are moderate, 35 people (7.4%) are high. And 28 people (5.9%) is too much. The results showed that education does not have much effect on the level of political participation of the youth, and no significant relationship was found between the level of education of the youth, the education of parents and the political participation of the sample. Also, it was found that there is a positive and significant relationship between the religious attitude of the studied sample and their political participation. No significant relationship was observed between the level of political awareness and the level of political participation of the sample. The results showed that there is no significant relationship between the political participation of young people and the amount of use of social networks; However, there is a positive relationship between the political participation of young people and their use of mass media and the use of television and newspapers, and there is a negative relationship with the use of satellite and internet. Also, there is a positive and significant relationship between the economic status of families and the economic status of the studied sample (youths) with political participation.