Be Our Guest: The Development of the Interpersonal Hospitality Scale.

Despite the ubiquity of hosting others in one's home, no validated measure of domestic hospitality currently exists. To address this gap, the current paper presents a set of four studies that develop and validate the Interpersonal Hospitality Scale, which seeks to capture the affective, motivational, and behavioral components of this person-place construct. The 12-item scale assesses three core dimensions: responsibility for guests, welcomingness, and a lack of perceived imposition.