The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of emotional labor of elementary school sports
instructors. The data were collected from 162 sports instructors using convenience sampling method. With the
collected data, factor analysis, reliability analysis, frequency analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression
were performed by SPSSWIN 12.0. The result of this analysis were summarized as follows. First, the
emotional labor of sports instructors impacted positive(+) influence on organizational commitment. Second,
surface acting, the variable of emotional labor impacted positive(+) influence on turnover intention, but deep
acting, the variable of emotional labor impacted negative(-) influence on turnover intention. Third,
organizational commitment of sports instructors impacted negative(-) influence on turnover intention.