Abstract
We investigated the structure of privacy, by adding dimensions of personal information to previously identified components of privacy, to assess the impact of the development of information ages. The difference in privacy between students of junior high schools and adults (their parents and teachers) was also investigated. The extracted factors included such one that was strongly related to determining when, how, and what extent personal information about them was to be communicated to others by themselves, which had not been extracted in previous studies in Japan. The results also suggested that the students of the junior high schools had a concept of privacy that seemingly had yet to differentiate, compared with the adults. It was also suggested that the Japanese notion of privacy in the future might include more explicitly the desire to determine when, how and what personal information to be exposed, which was known to be scarcely included in the privacy of the Japanese.
