Nurses represent the largest group of health care professionals. They deliver an array of services ranging from health promotion to curative, rehabilitative and end of life care. Sex role orientation is a product of interpersonal and intrapersonal cognitive functioning and emotional labor has traditionally been identified with women's work and the role of the mother in the family. The participants of this study consist of nurses working in Medical Collage, Calicut, Kerala and consists of 300 (Male=60 (20.00%), Female=240 (80.00%). The first objective of the study was to find out the relationship of sex role orientation and emotional labor of nurses and second to find out the role of sex role orientation and certain demographic variables on emotional labor of nurses. The study revealed that there exist a significant correlation between emotional labor and sex role orientation and also found that experience, age has significant role on their sex role orientation.
Demographic variables, Emotional Labor, Sex role orientation, Nurses
