Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors influencing students' views on welfare and the elderly. The survey was conducted in some elementary, junior high and senior high schools in Niigata, Toyama and Fukui Prefectures, and 1, 546 questionnaires collected were examined.
The results were as follows :
1) Srudents of the elementary schools showed more concerns and positive views on welfare and the elderly than those of the junior high and senior high schools.
2) Students, whose parents or grandparents maintained active and close communications in respective communities, had deeper comprehensions for the elderly and stronger concerns for assisting other people as well as learning about the issues of welfare and the elderly.
3) The views of junior high school students were influenced most remarkably by the living activity of their parents or grandparents.
4) The experience of living with grandparents seemed to have no particular effects on students' positive views and concerns on the issues of welfare and the elderly.
