The Roles of Job Stress and Collegial Support in the Effect of Nurses' Change Fatigue Level on Occupational Identification

This study was conducted to determine the mediating role of job stress and the moderating role of colleague support in the effect of change fatigue levels of nurses on professional identification. The study was designed in descriptive-cross-sectional type. The population of the study consists of 389 people selected by the simple random sampling method among 2.482 employees working in a training and research hospital in Erzincan province. The data were collected from nurses and nurse assistants working in a university education and research hospital through a questionnaire. According to the results of the study, there were negative relationships between change fatigue levels and professional identification, positive relationships between change fatigue and job stress, negative relationships between change fatigue and collegial support, negative relationships between job stress and collegial support, negative relationships between job stress and professional identification and positive relationships between collegial support and professional identification. In addition, it was found that job stress has a mediating role in the effect of change fatigue on professional identification. Finally, it was also found that colleague support has a moderating role in the indirect effect of change fatigue on professional identification (through job stress).