Emotional Labor and Job Stress in Caring Professions: Exploring Universalism and Particularism in Construct and Culture

Sharon Mastracci and Chih-Wei Hsieh

International Journal of Public Administration, 2016, vol. 39, issue 14, 1125-1133

Abstract: Passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the US increases demand for nurses and brings health care into the public sphere with all that entails, including public accountability and performance measurement. In the UK’s long-standing national healthcare system, revelations of several years of neglect and poor oversight at one hospital might have contributed to nearly 1,200 deaths. The resulting Francis Report cited, among many factors, undue emphasis on reaching national access targets and balancing budgets for substandard care. Scholars of emotional labor note these trends with interest, because emotional labor is essential to nursing practice. But is emotional labor a universal construct, or is it particular to cultural context? How much can be imported from one study to the next? We compare nurse job stress in individualist and collectivist countries and reveal a statistically significant relationship: The higher a country’s individualism index, the greater the frequency of emotional-labor-demanding job stress.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2015.1068327

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