Home food production,meaning, and family cohesion/adaptability

Empirical relationship between concepts from two important bodies of family literature are examined: home production from resource management, and cohesion and adaptability from literature on family relationships. Applying an input – output–throughput family systems perspective, indirect association of resource and demand variables and direct association of home food production variables were examined with respect to family cohesion and adaptability. Multivariant correlations of home food production frequency with family cohesion and family adaptability were statistically significant and positive. This positive relationship was further strengthened among respondents who reported home food production activity as being meaningful to their family.