Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of emotional suppression and burnout on the job satisfaction. Methods: We distributed questionnaires to 216 physical therapists and collected completed questionnaires from 193. We analyzed the data using frequency analysis, independent t-tests, analysis of variance. and multiple regression. Results: The results were as follows; 1) General characteristics of participants were 62.7% male, 43.5% less 30 years old, 31.6% working over 10 years in the hospital. 27.1% participants treated 31 patients or more a day, most(85.5%) participants were regular staff members. 2) Emotional Suppression, exhaustion and diminished self-efficacy were significantly correlated with job satisfaction. According to result of regression analysis on the job satisfaction, the job satisfaction negatively related with the diminished self-efficacy, exhaustion but positively related with the emotional supression. Their power of explanation regarding job satisfaction was 31.2%. Conclusion: These results showed that diminished self-efficacy was importantly influenced on the job satisfaction. So this result of the study means that we must improve the stratege for keeping efficient management.