Furthermore, we also found significant and negative association between genuine expression and emotional exhaustion. That is, coaches who express the desired emotion in a spontaneous way were less likely to experience emotional exhaustion. Results of Mauss et al.’s (2007) experimental study showed that automatic anger regulation process successfully decreased participant’s anger experience. The authors explained that automatic emotion regulation (equated with genuine expression) is a cost-free process. In our context, we can say that coaches with genuine expression did not have to expend any psychological and cognitive resources, which in turn led to less emotional exhaustion. In fact, the strategy of genuine expression had the effect of reducing emotional exhaustion.