Abstract:
Purposes The purposes of this research were: (1) to study the political attitudes of the upper secondary school students, (2) to compare the students' political attitudes on the basis of their sex, residence, their parents' educational background, occupation, and ways of bringing up the students, Procedures. A questionnaire constructed by the researcher on students' political attitudes towards political affairs in general, political leadership, political doctrine, political institutions and political participation, consisted of 42 Likert Rating Scale Type items was adminrtorcd to a group of 540 secondary school students stratified by educational region and school, were randomly selected from the Northeast. The validity of the questionnaire was judged by the experts and its reliability was 0.71. The results of the questionnaire were interpreted in terms of Z-test, Chi-square test, and percentage. Results The findings were as follow: 1. The students' political attitudes were divided into three groups: in which 64.22 percent was moderate, 29.57 percent was liberal and 6.21 percent was conservative. 2. The political attitudes of urban and rural students' both male and female were not significantly different at the .05 level. 3. The parents educational background, occupation and ways of bringing up the children did dot effect the students' political attitudes significantly at the .05 level.