Model of Image of Politician and Political Knowledge Understandings Influence People’s Election Behavior in Nonthaburi Province

Abstract

        This research aims to test model of Image of politician and political knowledge understandings influence people’s election behavior in Nonthaburi province through developed empirical data. And to analyze influence image of politician and political knowledge understandings to people’s election behavior in Nonthaburi province. The data collected by questionnaires from 160 respondents who people living in in Nonthaburi province. The research sampling was convenience sampling. The index of item-objective congruence (IOC) was 0.872 and reliability value of 0.918. The result of study revealed that (1) the model developed by the researcher was congruent with the empirical data c² = 50.347, df= 42, c²/df= 1.199, P-value = 0.176, RMR = 0.029, GFI = 0.989, RMSEA = 0.035 และ CFI = 0.922; shows that the statistical value of the model congruence of the model through developed by the researcher with the empirical data, In accordance with the assumption. And (2) the latent variable which the highest influence people’s election behavior in Nonthaburi province was Image of politician and secondly was political knowledge understandings with the coefficient influence at 0.466 and 0.379 statistical, respectively.