The Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS) said some 94% of them considered the current levels of corruption in Malaysia as high and very high.
Some 92% were not happy with how the country was governed, and 61% were unhappy with how their constituency was administered, it said.
“Putting aside whether claims are true or false, 91.08% of respondents acknowledge that issues like 1MDB and other alleged scandals of corruption worry them,” it said.
On government agencies, 80.3% of respondents did not think that the Election Commission (EC) was fair and independent, CPPS said.
Confidence in the police force was also low, with 84.75% disagreeing that the force was free of political interference.
On living costs, 81% of respondents were worried about property prices.
The survey, titled “Study on Youth Concerns and Political Awareness” was conducted from April 1 to 26.
Of 269 respondents, 175 were in the Klang Valley, 72 in other parts of Peninsular Malaysia, 14 in Sabah and Sarawak, and eight outside Malaysia.
The majority of the respondents are Chinese (163), followed by Malays (82), Indians (14), and one each from the Iban, Kadazan-Dusun and Orang Asli communities. Seven persons are of other ethnicities or mixed heritage.
Some 80% of respondents said they opposed the quota system in public universities, while 7.4% supported it and 12.6% were undecided or had no opinion.