ABSTRACT
Objective:T explore the longitudinal mediation of emotional labor and emotion regulation between occupational stress and job burnout in cinema employees.Methods:This study was a two-point longitudinal study (Interval of 2 months) with the 1067 employees from 44 city cinemas across the country as the sample,using the Emotional Labor Questionnaire (ELQ) to measure the degree of emotional labor,Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) to measure the degree of emotion regulation,Occupational Stress Indicator-2(OSI-2) to measure the degree of occupational stress,Maslach Burnout Inventory(MBI) to measure the degree of job burnout and Job Satisfaction Scale to measure the degree of job satisfaction.A series of structural equation model analyses was conducted for data analyses.Results:The scores of expression suppression were negatively correlated with scores of occupational stress (r =-0.16,P ＜0.01),and positively correlated with the scores of job satisfaction (r =0.17,P ＜0.01).The structural equation model which include the scores of occupational stress as the predictive variable,the scores of emotional labor and emotion regulation as the mediator,the scores of job burnout and job satisfaction as the outcome variable fit well.Emotional labor (surface acting and deep acting) acted as a mediator between occupational stress and job burnout(95 ％ CI:0.03-0.05;0.02-0.05).Emotion regulation (cognitive reappraisal) acted as a mediator between occupational stress and job bumout(95％ CI:0.01-0.03).Conclusion:Emotional labor and emotion regulation acted as a mediator between occupational stress and occupational outcomes.Expression suppression has positive effect in Chinese culture.People who well in using cognitive reappraisal can lead to positive work effect througgh more deep acting and less surface acting.