An Analysis of psychological factors that affect attitudes toward public works projects

In this paper, our purpose is exploring the existence and the cause of critical public attitudes toward public works projects. Therefore, we formed hypotheses of causal relationships about the psychological factors that affect attitudes toward public works projects based on political psychology, social psychology, and the knowledge of the existing research about mass media. As a result of a survey (N=680), the hypotheses are proved. Furthermore, from the result of analysis, it is proved that mass media affects the public opinion about public works projects.