Investigation of the Relation between Cultural, Social and Psychological Factors Related with Political Culture of College Students (Case Study: Shiraz University)

The purpose of this study is investigation of cultural, social and psychological factors related to political culture of college students (a case study carried out in shiraz university).In doing so, we have used the Almond, Verba and Inglehart theory as theoretical framework. For data gathering we applied survey method. This study has been done upon 430 of college students. The result show that political culture type of 17.4 percent of college students is parochial, 66.6 percent of them is subject and 17 percent of them are participant. also the result show that variables of satisfaction with life, using old media, using new media, membership in political- religious groups, membership in social groups, educational level, educational group, college, religion and ethnicity have a significant relationship with political culture except variables of membership in cultural groups, age, income, gender and job situation. Regarding multi-variable regression analysis, variables of membership in political- religious groups, using old media, using new media, satisfaction with life, type of college (low and political science and engineering), membership in cultural groups, gender and religion enter the regression equation and totally it showed variance of 41.9% of dependent variable.