The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an emotional labour scale. It provided evidence of the reliability and convergent and discriminant validity of the ELS. The subscales demonstrated an adequate degree of internal consistency as indicated by Cronbach's Additionally, in Study 2, a confirmatoly factor analysis (CFA) indicated that items loaded only onto their respective latent variables, thus demonstrating
the unidimcnsionality of each factor. Respondents appeared to be able to distinguish between the various role characteristics (i.e. variety, intensity, duration and frequency of emotional display). The low to moderate correlations between the ELS subscales and other scales demonstrated both its relationships with associated scales
and its ability to be adequately distinguished from other scales.