Chinese College Students’ Political Efficacy and Its Influencing Factors in the Information Age: A Sample Survey of CUMT

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Abstract This study aims at exploring how the Chinese college students use internet, their offline political participation, political trust and online political participation’s effect on their internal and external political efficacy in the information age. The result composed of 200 students’ use of internet and attitudes to political participation shows the relationship between the main influential factor and political efficacy in China is still far from that in the West. Keywords: Internet – college students – political efficacy – political participation ----- Bibliography: Gao, Xian: Chinese College Students’ Political Efficacy and Its Influencing Factors in the Information Age: A Sample Survey of CUMT, PCS, 1-2014, pp. 34-44. https://doi.org/10.3224/pcs.v5i1.19817