Measurement of kinship responsibility for organizational research

Abstract

To encourage the systematic inclusion of the kinship responsibility construct in organizational research, we offer a measure and evaluate its reliability and validity in a study of hospital employees. Kinship responsibility is defined as the degree of an individual's obligation to relatives in the community in which the individual resides, and kinship responsibility is expected to affect the individual's organizational behavior. The kinship responsibility construct is related theoretically and empirically to turnover, absenteeism, intent to leave, commitment, satisfaction, and hours worked for both female and male employees. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)