title: [Study of career motivators affecting the emotional labour of health care professionals in oncology].
abstract: In the course of their everyday work health care professionals (HCPs) often have to change their true feelings. The literature labels this performance as emotional labor. This article is presenting data on the characteristics of HCPs' most endangered by the negative consequences of emotional labor. Our simple choice question survey was conducted at Debrecen University Medical Healthcare Center with the help of 50 oncology HCPs volunteers. Nearly 90% of the HCPs examined change their true feelings in the course of work. It is very difficult to classify those threatened by the negative upshot of this emotional labor. Due to our research we found appalling differences of work motivation that were tightly interconnected with the respondents' emotional labor and their perceived role/emotional expectations. We succeeded in establishing three clusters and defining each cluster's characteristics. Figures suggest that only somewhat more than the half of the HCPs is authentic professional helper, and 45% of them does not or only slightly perceive the patients' demands concerning their work. Therefore, it is important that the work environment does not only assist the work of HCPs by professional means, but along emotional dimensions as well.
authors.affiliation: Debreceni Egyetem, Orvos- és Egészségtudományi Centrum, Sugárterápia Tanszék, Debrecen.
authors.forename: Kornélia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Szluha
authors.forename: Kornélia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lazányi
authors.forename: Akos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Horváth
authors.forename: János
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Szántó
authors.forename: Judit
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tóth
authors.forename: Zoltán
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hernádi
authors.forename: Róbert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Póka
authors.forename: László
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Damjanovich
authors.forename: Zoltán
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Garami
authors.forename: Balázs
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fülöp
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Molnár
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000209:etiology; D002321:Career Choice; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008297:Male; D008495:Medical Oncology; D009042:Motivation; D024382:Professional Role / Q000523:psychology