摘要:This study examined the effect of affective, continuance, and normative commitments on the turnover intentions of nurses at Makassar private hospitals and the dominant aspect of these commitments. The cross sectional study that involved 140 data was done with generic nurses, using stratified random sampling. Data were collected by using questionnaires and analyzed with multiple regression analysis. The result showed that affective, continuance and normative commitments have a simultaneously negative significant effect on turnover intentions of the nurses at private hospitals in Makassar, Indonesia. Another outcome discovered was that affective commitment had dominant effect on the nurses’ turnover intentions. However, continuance commitment had no significant effect on turnover intentions of the nurses at private hospitals in Makassar, a city in Indonesia.