This study is intended to figure out the relationship between emotional labor, ego state and job satisfaction of vocational counselors, and pore over the mediating effects of ego state in the relationship between emotional labor and job satisfaction. ...
This study is intended to figure out the relationship between emotional labor, ego state and job satisfaction of vocational counselors, and pore over the mediating effects of ego state in the relationship between emotional labor and job satisfaction. To achieve this, a survey was carried out to 235 vocational counselors who are in charge of employment referral through the visiting counseling and telephone counseling for vocational training, job offering and job finding at vocational training institutions, city hall, borough offices, employment centers under the Ministry of Labor, and private employment service organizations in Gwangju.
The results of this study is summarized as follows.
First, the relationship between emotional labor, ego state and job satisfaction of vocational counselors showed that their emotional labor had a positive relationship with their AC(Adapted Child) ego state, but a negative relationship with their job satisfaction. In other words, the higher their emotional labor, the higher their AC ego state. But the higher their emotional labor, the lower their job satisfaction.
Second, the CP(Critical Parent), NP(Nurturing Parent), A(Adult) and FC(Free Child) ego states were not mediated in the relationship between emotional labor and job satisfaction of vocational counselors. In other words, the distortion of their ego state to show their opinions at liberty in counseling with emotional laborers could increased their AC ego state, but decreased their job satisfaction(Kim Mi-rye, 2012).
The domination of their imagnation and creative thinking over their emotional labor with their curiosity and desire dominated by the feelings rather than the free reason would not mediate their positive emotional labor, which could not improve their job satisfaction.
Third, the AC ego state was partially mediated in the relationship between emotional labor and job satisfaction of vocational counselors. In other words, their emotional labor had not also an direct effect on their job satisfaction, but it had an effect on their job satisfaction through their AC ego state.
Compared with previous studies, the partial mediating effects of ego state in the relationship between emotional labor and job satisfaction of vocational counselors supported the mediating effects in above-stated Kim Sang-ku(2009)'s study. Consequently, it is important that the ego state is mediated in the relationship between emotional labor and job satisfaction of vocational counselors. The dysfunction of AC ego state will lead to easy compromise for job performance or severe stress of the repression over self-emotion, resulting in negative counseling by emotional exhaustion.