The Tendency of Nurses' Working Emotions

They can be categorized as emotional labor. The purposes of this study were to explore the tendencies of nurses' working emotions and influential factors that induce specific emotions.

There were 524 nurses for two hospitals in Chia-Yi City participated in this study. Major findings of this study include : nurses have stronger feelings of positive emotions than negative ones , love-happy and anxiety are the major and strongest felt emotions in positive and negative emotions respectively , negative relationship exists between positive and negative emotions , positive relationships exist among positive emotions and among negative emotions , co-workers is the most influential factors to nurses' emotions, and nurses show strong needs in external help for adjusting work-related emotions.