Emotional labor thaory propounded by Hochscild（1983）, suggests that the emotion of workers become commoditized when these acts are sold for a Salary. This paper reviewed the following points from the viewpoint of sociology and psychology： （1) Summarizing the research histories of emotional labor, burnout, and compassion; （2） Covering all the research emotional burden, mental hearth of human service providers and teachers, and burnout research. This study suggested future requirements in this research area： much further accumulation of research about emotional labor, work, and bunout, the analysis of the theoretical backgrounds, and then the construction of entire framework
