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Abstract

Abstract

The Relationship of Emotional Labor with Professional Quality of Life in General Hospital Personnel

Park, Bu-Yeon Advisor : Choi, Seong-Woo M.D, Ph.D Department of Health science, Graduated School of Chosun university

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between emotional labor and professional quality of life in general hospital personnel.

Method: This study is a cross-sectional survey set in 13 hospital in Gwangju-Jeonnam Province from February to March 2012. Data were collected using a self-reported structured questionnaire sent to a convenient sample of 456 hospital affair and outpatient clinic workers. participants were asked about emotional labor and their quality of life using modified questionnaires developed originally by Morris & Feldman, Brotheridge and Stamm, respectively. We performed the multiple linear regression analysis to determine the association between emotional labor and professional quality of life consisted of compassion satisfaction, burn out, and secondary traumatic stress.

Result : We received completed questionnaires from 320(70.2%) subjects excluding the response with missing values. The mean score of emotional labor, the variety of emotions, the frequency of emotions, surface acting and deep acting were 3.23, 3.09, 3.66, 3.42 and 3.66 respectively. The mean score of compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress in professional quality of life were 32.59, 25.57, and 8.44, respectively. The emotional labour was negatively related with professional quality of life (β=-0.136,P=0.039). In multiple regression analysis adjusted for gender, age, position, and religion, surface acting of emotional labor was negatively correlated with Surface acting and compassion satisfaction (β=-0.952,P<0.001), but positively correlated with burnout (β=0.665,P <0.001), and secondary traumatic stress (β=0.328,P <0.001). Whereas, deep acting of emotional labor was positively associated with compassion satisfaction (β=1.512,P<0.001), but negatively associated with burnout (β=-0.922,P<0.001), and secondary traumatic stress (β=-0.444,P<0.001) of professional quality of life.

Conclusion : We need to intervene the emotional labour to improve the quality of life of personnel working for general hospital outpatient and administrative departments. The content of intervention might be composed of reinforcement of deep acting and control of surface acting affecting the professional quality of life. key word: emotion labor, professional quality of life, deep acting, surface acting.