参与意愿的中介效应与政治知识的边界效应——基于政治效能感与参与行为的机制研究

Mediating Effect of Participation Intention and Boundary Effect of Political Knowledge:A Study Based on Political Efficacy and Political Participation

为探讨政治效能感、参与意愿与选举参与行为的影响机制及其作用的边界效应,本研究以政治知识为调节变量,通过对北京、天津、黑龙江、山东、浙江、安徽、湖北、甘肃、广西壮族自治区和陕西等10个省、自治区、直辖市进行有关地方人大代表选举参与的问卷调查,获得8 635份中国公民的有效数据。分析结果显示:政治效能感通过个体的参与意愿对其选举参与行为表现出显著的正向影响;同时,政治知识不但对政治效能感与选举参与行为的直接影响关系具有调节作用,而且还对参与意愿的间接影响关系具有显著的调节作用。本研究验证了参与意愿的中介效应以及政治知识的边界效应,进一步丰富了我们对选举参与行为相关影响机制及其作用条件的认识与理解。

The present study constructs a moderated mediation model to examine whether participation intention mediates the relation between political efficacy and election participation behavior, and whether direct and indirect processes are moderated by political knowledge. In a questionnaire survey about the election of the members of people' s congress, done in two municipalities and other 8 provinces, 8635 of valid data are collected , with the results indicating participation intention plays a mediating role in the relation between political efficacy and participation behavior of election;political knowledge moderates the political efficacy and participation behavior of election directly, as well as participation intention indirectly. This study validates the mediating effect of participation intention and the boundary effect of political knowledge, much enhancing our understanding of what may be effective to people' s participation behavior of election.