PSYCHOLOGY MASTER'S THESIS ABSTRACT

Brian McBride

Industrial/Organizational
June 1990

Kinship Responsibility and Closeness in Relation to Women’s Work Behavior

    The purpose of this study was to expand upon previous research on how kinship constraints are related to work behavior.  The relationship among closeness of kinship ties, moderator variables and work behavior were studied.

    The respondents were 100 working women volunteers from the subject pool at a large western university and a local community college.  A three-part self-report, anonymous survey was used that included a kinship responsibility index, a kinship closeness scale, a job satisfaction scale and self-report questions regarding the respondent’s working hours per week and likelihood of quitting work.
    Correlations between work behavior and kinship constraint variables were analyzed.  Multiple regression analysis of kinship responsibility indictors, family life stage, and age of respondent on work behavior were performed.  Results indicated partial support for the proposed relationships between kinship responsibility, work behavior and moderator variables.  These findings were discussed in relation to previous research and implications for future research.

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