The Study of Policy Information Commitment for Undergraduates Major in Public Administration Discipline—the Case of an University in Northern Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yee Yao, 姚宜
• Other Authors: I-Jan Yeh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jqp9kw

碩士 === 世新大學 === 行政管理學研究所(含博、碩專班) === 104 === During the past decade, the wide spread usage of internet (web-based) technology has dramatically changed the relationship between governments and citizens, and as a result become the prime focus of educational researchers. Yet, none of the existing researches touch on the information seeking behaviors of students major in public administration and related fields despite that students nowadays tend to learn public policy via internet. Therefore, based on previous researcher’s work on information commitment, particularly Tsai(2005)’s framework, the author hopes to explore whether internet(web-based) self-efficacy positively predicts evaluative standards and searching strategy and what are the factors affecting searching strategy by administering survey aimed at PA undergraduate students in one university. The moderating effect of internet self-efficacy on these relationships was also examined. The main research results are as follows: 1.Most PA-related undergraduates have higher internet efficacy. 2.Advanced evaluative criteria for policy information of the respondents can positively predict their elaboration searching strategy in policy information. 3.The sub-dimension of internet self-efficacy of the respondents can positively predict their evaluative criteria and searching strategy. 4.Internet self-efficacy positively and significantly affects the relationship between advanced evaluative standards and elaboration searching strategy. 【Keywords】: public administration, web-based technology, internet self-efficacy, information commitment, evaluative standard, searching strategy