## 3 Discussion
The only correlation with the age variable is reported in the Turkish female sub-sample as affecting the Privacy Confidence. The older the participant is the greater is her confidence and trust in the concept of Privacy (Table 5). The education variable represents the number of formal years of study accomplished by the participants, and the different distribution of the two sub-samples is due only to the different organization of the two educational systems. For this reason only the Italian sample presents significant correlations between the education variable and the operative dimensions. The opposite relationship between gender and sense of community is very interesting. In the Italian male sub-sample a negative correlation is revealed, while in the female one a significant positive correlation is present. Moreover in the Italian sample, the males are characterized by a negative correlation between sense of community and education, while the Italian females show the opposite trend. The Privacy sub-dimensions, confidence and concerns, show a negative correlation in age only for Italian females, and consequently appear to reduce both their confidence and concerns about Privacy with the increase of education. The sense of community dimension shows very interesting relation patterns within our sample, reporting significant correlations only for the male sub-samples, and not always in the same direction. The Participation concept is perceived as more positive and trustworthy as the sense of community increases, the same effect acts on Italian male sub-samples even for the concerns, while it presents an opposite effect on the Turkish male sub-sample (i.e., the concerns about participation decrease with the increase of sense of community). Finally the Italian sub-sample presents a positive correlation between the sense of community and Privacy concerns scores (Table 5). In general, it is interesting to observe how the results of the correlation matrix between Participation and Privacy measurements are quite empty. In particular, larger correlations were expected between the confidence and concerns sub-measures. Such data indicates the multi-structured and complex architecture of the concepts under scrutiny and how in different cultures their interplay could not be easy to reveal or predict. In order to evaluate the interplay between gender and culture on the study variables of our study (i.e., sense of community, participation and privacy concerns and confidence), we conducted a series of separate ANOVA in order to test the effects of the factors as well as of their interaction. The sense of community does not appear to differ much regarding the nationality (3.5%), and the gender does not play a significant role in the interaction between gender and nationality. In other words, the two cultures appear to be comparable in terms of sense of community. On the contrary, more relevant differences are detected regarding the Participation and Privacy measures. The ANOVA investigating the gender and nationality effects on the sub-scores of the Participation scale (Table 7) reports that around the 10% of the variance is explained by the nationality factor. In particular, both the confidence and the concerns about participation are significantly higher in the Turkish sample. A greater portion of the variance is explained by the ANOVA investigating such effects on the Privacy sub-scores. Concerning this construct respectively 11.4% and the 14.1% are associated with the nationality, again indicating the Turkish sub-sample as more confident and concerned about Privacy (Table 8). Finally an effect of the gender is revealed as explaining respectively the 8.3% and the 2.1% of the variance of Privacy confidence and concerns sub-scores, with the Females reporting always a lower score. The most fascinating results are those produced by the semantic differential measures.