The role of political socialization and its agents in the political loyalty of citizens Case study: Isfahan city

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1 Department of Political Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ardakan University, Ardakan, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Payame Noor University,, Iran.

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The main purpose of this article is the role of political socialization and its agents in the amount of political loyalty of citizens, which was done by survey method and using questionnaire tools. The statistical population of the study is citizens over the age of 18 in Isfahan with 2243249 people in 2016. The sample size was 384 with the Cochran's formula, which was selected by stratified random sampling. SPSS software was used to process the data. The results of the data analysis show that there is a significant relationship between political socialization and its agents and the amount of political loyalty of citizens. Based on the findings, between the role of family (r = 0.42), educational system (r = 0.33), peers (r = 0.37), mass media (r = 0.42), political parties (r = 0.30) and religiosity (r = 0.80) has a significant relationship with the level of political loyalty of citizens. The results of regression coefficient show that the variables of religiosity (Beta = 0.514), political effectiveness (Beta = 0.265), political events (Beta = 0.297), political parties (Beta= -0.199), political awareness (Beta = 0.069) and the educational system (Beta = -0.060) entered the equation and explained a total of 0.774 of the dependent variable variance (R² = 0.774). It can be argued that these variables play a very important role in the degree of political loyalty of individuals.

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