Information exposure and attitude towards the government “Gen. Prayut Chan-Ocha” with community development of Bang khontee district, Samut Songkram Province.

Abstract

This research aims to study of information exposure and attitude levels of people in the Bang Khontee District with information about the General Prayuth Chan-Ocha government and local community development in the Bang Khontee District, Samut Songkram Province. Using a quantitative approach to research by survey the sample of 400 People in local communities living in the Bang Khontee District, by using a multistage random sampling.

           The results showed that the majority of the populations are females, aged between 30-39 years ; mostly is a farmer, with a monthly income between 10,001-30,000 Baht and have an Undergraduate education.

            The behavior of exposure to information about the government revealed that most of the popular media are online. The average exposure is 5-6 days per week. the content that is open is to clarify the results of local development work. and the reason for opening because they want to know the government's local development work results.

            The people have attitudes towards information about the government  in all aspects at the very agreed level or have a good attitude (mean=3.71) with the highest level of attitude in the event at the very agreed level (mean=4.02), followed by application at the very agreed level (mean=3.96) and the least attitude level of reliability at the very agreed level (mean=3.44).

More important comments on this issue of the people are, the government should listen to the real needs of the people in the local community, by applying good government policies to apply concrete results and directly affecting the well-being of the people in the local community.

The test hypothesis research meets interesting issues that people who are farmers and have an education undergrad degree have attitude towards information about the government reliability at the agreed level, rather than people with other professions with statistical significance at the level of .05.

Discussion of the findings found interesting issues, including the Bang khontee people receive news from online media in large quantities. in order to know the results of local government development work, attitude towards information is at a good level. the people of Bang khontee like the latest news in the government news. and the least in terms of reliability even though it was highly agreed, the real needs of the local community are something that the government should listen to for the well-being of the people.