In this study, the relationship between the noticing experience of the autobiographical memory of childcare workers and their efficacy was analyzed. The difference in years of experience was considered. First, the childcare workers’ attitude; the children’s psychological state and conduct; the relationship between parents, guardians, and childcare workers; and the childcare environment when a noticing experience of a childcare worker occurred were put into order based on Yoshida et al. (2015) categories. Next, the influence of childcare experience and the presence of a noticing experience of a childcare worker on their efficacy was considered. It was found that as a childcare worker accumulates childcare experience, their efficacy increases. The efficacy of the childcare workers with noticing experience as autobiographical memory was greater than the efficacy of the childcare workers who did not have such experience. On the other hand, a difference in the childcare workers’ efficacy according to the contents of a noticing experience was not found. Finally, the results of this study are discussed and future problems are described.

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Today parents (guardians etc.)’ anxieties about child-rearing have got higher in the constantly changing relationship of society and family. This research explores parents’ anxieties about childrearing and the role of child-care providers expected by parents. 772 parents at kindergartens and nursery schools were surveyed for this study to evaluate the relationships of their anxieties about child-rearing with the following factors respectively: situations of their child-rearing such as employment, their own time for hobbies etc., the degree of their satisfaction toward kindergartens and nursery schools, and their expectation for child-rearing support from child-care providers. There are four research findings, as follows: 1) parents without employment suffer higher anxieties of child-rearing, and parents with less time for their hobbies suffer higher anxieties of childrearing, 2) parents hold high satisfaction toward kindergartens and nursery schools, 3) parents expect child-care providers to “cooperative activities and individual support,” “offer them assistance and counseling,” and “dispatch information on and maintain the social network of child-rearing support,” and 4) the role of child-care providers expected by parents was particularly high in “cooperative activities and individual support” and also in “dispatch information on and maintain the social network of child-rearing support.”

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Help-seeking means to call to others for help as needed. One of the factors which affects it includes help-seeking preference the cognitive framework of demanding help. The purpose of the present study was to clarify the characteristics of the help-seeking preferences of caregivers and examine methods of effective support by clarifying the association between maternal anxiety and imminent support, and participation in local support activity awareness. A questionnaire survey was completed by 296 caregivers in Japan. The results were as follows: help-seeking preference of caregivers revealed a two factor solution, including resentment of help and, experience in seeking help. For every characteristic of help-seeking preference, it was suggested that maternal anxiety, recognition of imminent support, recognition for the local support activity participation were different, and possibilities for effective support were suggested.

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