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The Role of Self-Compassion and Experience in Psychologists' Latent Emotional Labour Strategy Profiles

Emotional labour has long been associated with personal and organizational outcomes such as burnout. However, theoretically dichotomising regulation into surface and deep acting may constrain the ecological validity of research as iterative and person-centered approaches to emotion regulation are not considered. Furthermore, recent research suggests self-compassion and experience may predict emotional labour regulation in psychologists, but specific mechanisms accounting for this relationship are unknown.

Citation:
Clarke JJ, Mancini VO, Rees CS, Breen LJ. The Role of Self-Compassion and Experience in Psychologists' Latent Emotional Labour Strategy Profiles. J Clin Psychol. 2026;10.1002/jclp.70133.

Keywords:
Emotional exhaustion; emotional labour; experience; latent profile analysis; self‐compassion.

Abstract:
Emotional labour has long been associated with personal and organizational outcomes such as burnout. However, theoretically dichotomising regulation into surface and deep acting may constrain the ecological validity of research as iterative and person-centered approaches to emotion regulation are not considered. Furthermore, recent research suggests self-compassion and experience may predict emotional labour regulation in psychologists, but specific mechanisms accounting for this relationship are unknown.