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The purpose of this study is to discuss the political socialization and national identity of the senior students of the six public high schools in New Taipei City. Specifically, this study aims to present the relativity among the different backgrounds—genders, provinces of birthplace, and parents’ education levels, the factors of political socialization of different students— parties, families, schools, and peer groups, and the national identity—systematical identification, cultural identity, and ethical identity. Based on the self-drawn questionnaires on attitudes towards national identity, this study adopted the questionnaire survey and got 519 valid responses. These above-mentioned questionnaires are then analyzed in the statistical ways of reliability analysis, descriptive statistical analysis, T-test of independent samples, single-element variant analysis, Fisher’s post comparison analysis.
The results of this study are summarized as follows.
(1) In ethical identity and systematical identity, the percentage of identifying with Taiwanese is high, and the subjects claim some distinction from Mainland China,
but in cultural identity, the Chinese culture is regarded as their identity criterion.
(2) In systematical identity, there are significant variations in students of different birth provinces, of different political tendencies, in students’ habitual TV viewing and
media reading, in students’ school educational identification, and in the group
discussion.
(3) In cultural identity, there are significant variations in students of different birth
provinces, of different political tendencies, in their parents’ frequent concern or
criticism over political parties or issues, in students’ habitual TV viewing and media
reading, in students’ school educational identification, and in the group discussion.
(4) In ethical identity, there are significant variations in educational levels of the
parents, in students’ different political tendencies, in students’ habitual TV viewing
and media reading, in students’ school educational identity.
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