Facilitators and obstacles for the evening family commensality
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Within the literature, a conflict between an individualistic tendency and materialized cultural values on traditional beliefs about commensality’s value is identified. The present study is based on the use of transversal quantitative methods to approach the influential facilitation and obstruction factors in family commensality occurrence, materialized at the family-shared evening meal, which emerges as the battle flag to maintain this instance. Main results reveal the prominence of those factors related to the individual’s routine in relation to facilitate or obstruct evening commensality performance, in detriment of the related variables to motivations. These findings highlight the relevance to deeply analyze those factors to understand the composition of households or social class as commensality’s main determinants, and the content of their relationship.
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