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his study aims to investigate how commitment, controllability, and perceived social supports are related to stress responses of professional caregivers. The participants were 213 caregivers who were employed at a geriatric hospital, whose ages ranged from 35 to 70. The psychological tests used in this research included the following: Bartone's Hardiness Scale: Short-Form, Park's Social Supports Scale, and Stress Response Inventory. Results indicated that geriatric caregivers perceived receiving little supports from co-workers and superiors. Commitment, controllability, and perceived social supports of caregivers were negatively related with stress responses. And, these three variables accounted 16.1% variance of stress responses. Stepwise regression analyses for sub-variables of stress responses revealed that commitment, emotional and informative supports from co-workers and superiors, and evaluative supports from families were determinative. It was discussed roles of the commitment and controllability as intrapersonal variables, and perceived social supports as a external variable in stress responses with previous studies. (Korean J Str Res 2010;18:137¡«143)