Abstract:

Political efficacy is the feeling that individual political action does have, or can have, an impact upon the political process According to a survey of 1000 graduate students, the results show that the factors influencing internal political efficacy mainly include government levels, political interest and political knowledge, and external political efficacy mainly include participation in small-scale democratic processes, learning about and discussing political issues and identifying with a politically oriented group Based on this, cultivating the graduate students’ interest in public affairs should be paid more attention and the graduate students’ political efficacy should be enhanced in a multi-channel way

Key words:  graduate students, political efficacy, qualitative study, quantitative study