This study investigates the factors influencing the positive feeling for meal preparation in married women in the 20–60 age range. Meal preparation was classified into six processes: 1）decide menu, 2）get food for cooking, 3）cooking, 4）seating at table, 5）eating the meal, 6）clearing table and washing up. Eight descriptive elements were established by a preliminary survey (n=103) as a hypothesis for those factors which raise a positive feeling. A factor analysis was applied to the conscious survey data (n=600) of these eight elements for the six processes, and three factors were extracted from each process of meal preparation. A comparison of the average for each factor score by the age of the married women and that of the degree of preference for cooking revealed a difference in the structure of positive feeling factors. The cooking skill, family structure, living environment, and a sense of worth had far reaching effects.