A Research On Relationships Among Political Trust, Media Contact And Participation Behavior In Network Group Events

The political trust of college students mainly inspects the students’ psychological perception and emotion of identity to the relevant political value concept, the government political attitude, ability, achievements and public officials’ability, a series of political related activities. Carry out the research of political trust of college students, care of college students’ political psychology and participation behavior, have very important theory and practical value. This study takes college students as the object to develop a questionnaire of college students’ political trust. Based on analysis, structured interview and open questionnaire through literature, the college students’ political trust forecasting questionnaire is developed, and first investigate 390 samples. Through item analysis and exploratory factor analysis, the formal of college students’ political trust were tested, then we have investigate 489 samples to take confirmatory factor analysis, eventually college students’ political trust questionnaire have developed. Analysis of college students’ political trust differences in demographic variables, and explore its relationship with the media contact, the participation behavior in network group events, and finally have some prospect of research on college students’ political trust.The main results of this study are as follows:(1) The college students’ political trust is a multi-dimensional structure composed of government trust, value identity and identity of institution and Incorruptible. Among them, the government trust contains ten items, the value identity contains five items and identity of institution and incorruptible contains four items.19 items in total.(2) The college students’political trust questionnaire has a high reliability and a good validity. The internal consistency alpha coefficient of each dimension ranges from 0.852 to 0.936. the internal consistency of the total inventory alpha coefficient is 0.954, indicates that the questionnaire is good in reliability and stability. Confirmatory factor analysis of the fitting index are as follows:X2/df=2.973, GFI,CFI, NFI, TFT, NNFI are higher than 0.9, RMR=0.045, RMSEA=0.064, which shows that the model is well-fitted. The correlation among each dimension is from 0.505 to 0.613, and the correlation of the total questionnaire is from 0.713 to 0.867, shows that the questionnaire has a good construct validity.(3) The current students’political trust is at a relatively high level. The total average score reached at 3.71, the highest dimension is value identity, then the government trust, the last one is identity of institution and incorruptible.(4) The college students’political trust have significant differences in professional, grade and political affiliation, but have no significant differences in gender. the political affiliation of parents and whether the student leaders.(5) The college students’political trust can significantly predict the participation behavior in network group events. Among them, the government trust has significant positive prediction on response to expression, network trial and active discussions, identity of institution and incorruptible has significant positive prediction on the network indulgence and attack, and the value identity has remarkable negative prediction on network indulgence and attack.(6) Media contact (party information contact) has a positive effect on the participation behavior in network group events.(7) Media contact (party information contact) has a positive effect on the political trust and the group information contact has a negative effect on identity of institution and incorruptible.(8) The political trust have fully mediated effects on party information contact and participation behavior in network group events.