Emotıonal expressıon styles of healthcare professıonals workıng ın communıty mental health center

Abstract

Objective: The style of emotional expression has an important place in communication with health professionals and patients. This study aimed to determine the style of emotional expression of healthcare personnel working in community mental health centers. Methods: All healthcare personnel working in six community mental health centers in xxxx, Türkiye were included in the study (N=48). The Emotional Expression Styles Inventory (EESI), which is used to determine the style of emotional expression towards the individual who makes them experience that emotion as a result of experiencing happiness, sadness and anger, was used in the study. Results: It was found that healthcare personnel working in community mental health centers reflected the self-oriented expression most frequently in the happiness emotion subscales. In sadness emotion expression sub-scale, it was found that verbal expression was the most common and aggressive expression was almost never exhibited. In the anger expression subscale, it was found that verbal expression and facial projection were the most common and aggressive expression was the least common. Conclusion: Determining the emotional expression styles of the employees of the community mental health center will be useful in terms of noticing emotional expression towards patients.