This paper focuses on the nature of organizational involvement—the orientations of patients to the types of social control to which they are subjected. Patients' affect tends to be positive and polarized. Complex organizations have predominant involvement profiles. Hospitals are characterized by positive involvement. However, due to the variability of hospital structures, it was found that patients had varying kinds and degrees of involvement. As the utilization of coercive power increases, negative involvement increases sharply and positive involvement decreases. Finally, it was found that the total amount of control exercised is inversely related to positive involvement.