Abstract
Purpose
This study aimed to investigate spirituality, sociodemographic features, and occupational features as predictors of nurses’ emotional labor.
Design and Methods
The study is descriptive cross‐sectional and correlational research.
Findings
The results demonstrated that there was a statistically significant positive relationship between the nurses’ spirituality and the subdimension of intimate behavior (r = .545) (P < .05). Regarding the nurses’ in‐depth behaviors, the study found that spirituality (β = .550) and the number of patients that the nurses were responsible for (β = −.154) were statistically significant predictors (P < .05). The subdimensions of superficial behavior, spirituality (β = .498), and rechoosing the profession (β = −.142) were statistically significant predictors as well (P < .05).
Practice Implications
For the development of emotional labor in clinical nurses, administrators should be sensitive to nurses’ spiritual values.