The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of job stress of the long term care workers on their perception of elder abuse focusing on the moderating effect of occupational identity. To search these findings, survey was conducted onto the care workers who are working at long-term care facilities and 209 questionnaires were used for analysis. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, correlational analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis were used. The analysis showed three major findings. First, job stress of the long term care workers significantly influenced their perception of elder abuse negatively. Second, occupational identity of th e long term care workers significantly influenced their perception of elder abuse negatively. Third, the effect of job stress of the long term care workers on their perception of elder abuse was changed according to the level of occupational identity. That is. occupational identity was found to be a variable to moderate the effect of job stress of the long term care workers on perception of elder abuse Based on these results, methods to increase perception of elder abuse of the long term care workers were discussed.