This is a descriptive study that intended to provide basic data on nursing resource management strategy in order to provide
qualitative nursing service by examining emotinal labor, social support, and job satisfactions among the clinical nurses while
assessing their correlation. The subjects were 300 nurses working in a general hospital located in Gyeonggi Province in scale of
more than 300 beds. The data derived from the scale of emotinal labor, social support, and job satisfactions were utilized for the
basic assessment. T-test, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation coefficients were utilized for the data analysis using SPSS/WIN 18.0.
According to the result, the clinical nurses reported more than moderate level of emotinal labor and social support. Also there
was significant difference found in job satisfactions depending on age, marital status, academic background, duty post, career
length, wage, and position. In addition, the group with post, high level of emotinal labor resulted in low awareness on socia
support and job satisfaction where as the group that highly recognized social support showed high level of job satisfaction. Such
results are the reconfirmation of the seriousness of emotional labor among the clinical nurses and in line with this, it is
considered necessary to us provide organizational support on interventional strategy to reduce the nurses' emotional labor.
Meanwhile, it implies the necessity of program development that can improve job satisfaction.