Abstract
This study analyzed the structure of childcare stress by means of questionnaire surveys. It examined the relationships between the structures and the caregivers social situations for childcare. In this study, by means of open questionnaire survey, 169 mothers were asked about situations in which they experienced negative feelings in childcare. By means of a rating scale based of the first survey, 523 mothers were asked how much they experienced childcare stresses.
Factor analysis showed that 8 structures of stress were found by using and named as follows; 1) Uncontrollable feelings for a child, 2) Negative attitudes to ward childcare, 3) Dissatisfied of husbands childcare, 4) Cognition of insufficient childcare environment, 5) Demands for childcare support, 6) Threat of self identity loss, 7) Apprehension for child development, 8) Poor physical condition Result showed that the factor scores were concerned with caregivers social situations, such as numbers of children, job style, family style, age of the youngest child, and mothers ages.
