Wiebke Johanna Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 907198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wiebke Johanna Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wiebke Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculty of Human Sciences Osnabrück University Osnabrück Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0995-2772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feeding, food, and attachment
According to attachment theory, feeding, including breastfeeding, plays only a marginal role in relationship formation. However, studies-especially in rural traditional non-Western contexts-repeatedly demonstrate that feeding can be an important attachment mechanism. We interviewed 30 urban, middle-class families with 6-to-19-month-old infants in the surrounding greater metropolitan area of San José, Costa Rica, to investigate if they consider fe…
Growing up in Nso
It is an undisputed fact among attachment researchers that children need stability and continuity in their caregiving environment for optimal developmental outcomes. However, anthropological studies show that informal and often temporally limited kinship-based foster care, including changes of children's primary caregivers, is widespread in some cultural contexts and considered normative and thus beneficial for children. Based on ethnographic int…
The influence of ecocultural contexts on Grandmaternal caregiving and Grandmother–Grandchild relationships
This study examines the cultural concept of grandmothers as caregivers and potential attachment figures for their grandchildren in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Specifically, we examined the influence of the grandmaternal co‐residence with grandchildren on their caregiving involvement and on the dyad's relationship formation. Semi‐structured interviews with 19 grandmothers of 14–28 months old infants were conducted. Findings revealed close grandmother–…
Development in context
Attachment studies mostly follow the Western middle-class model in theory and methods. To demonstrate that the assessment of children's caregiving context is an often neglected, but crucial prerequisite for attachment studies, we (a) conducted a literature analysis of attachment research in non-Western contexts and (b) empirically investigated the caregiving arrangements and cultural concepts of attachment figures in three cultural groups in Cost…
Growing up in Nso
It is an undisputed fact among attachment researchers that children need stability and continuity in their caregiving environment for optimal developmental outcomes. However, anthropological studies show that informal and often temporally limited kinship-based foster care, including changes of children's primary caregivers, is widespread in some cultural contexts and considered normative and thus beneficial for children. Based on ethnographic int…
Development in context
Attachment studies mostly follow the Western middle-class model in theory and methods. To demonstrate that the assessment of children's caregiving context is an often neglected, but crucial prerequisite for attachment studies, we (a) conducted a literature analysis of attachment research in non-Western contexts and (b) empirically investigated the caregiving arrangements and cultural concepts of attachment figures in three cultural groups in Cost…
Feeding, food, and attachment
According to attachment theory, feeding, including breastfeeding, plays only a marginal role in relationship formation. However, studies-especially in rural traditional non-Western contexts-repeatedly demonstrate that feeding can be an important attachment mechanism. We interviewed 30 urban, middle-class families with 6-to-19-month-old infants in the surrounding greater metropolitan area of San José, Costa Rica, to investigate if they consider fe…
Development in context
Attachment studies mostly follow the Western middle-class model in theory and methods. To demonstrate that the assessment of children's caregiving context is an often neglected, but crucial prerequisite for attachment studies, we (a) conducted a literature analysis of attachment research in non-Western contexts and (b) empirically investigated the caregiving arrangements and cultural concepts of attachment figures in three cultural groups in Cost…
The influence of ecocultural contexts on Grandmaternal caregiving and Grandmother–Grandchild relationships
This study examines the cultural concept of grandmothers as caregivers and potential attachment figures for their grandchildren in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Specifically, we examined the influence of the grandmaternal co‐residence with grandchildren on their caregiving involvement and on the dyad's relationship formation. Semi‐structured interviews with 19 grandmothers of 14–28 months old infants were conducted. Findings revealed close grandmother–…
Feeding, food, and attachment
According to attachment theory, feeding, including breastfeeding, plays only a marginal role in relationship formation. However, studies-especially in rural traditional non-Western contexts-repeatedly demonstrate that feeding can be an important attachment mechanism. We interviewed 30 urban, middle-class families with 6-to-19-month-old infants in the surrounding greater metropolitan area of San José, Costa Rica, to investigate if they consider fe…
Growing up in Nso
It is an undisputed fact among attachment researchers that children need stability and continuity in their caregiving environment for optimal developmental outcomes. However, anthropological studies show that informal and often temporally limited kinship-based foster care, including changes of children's primary caregivers, is widespread in some cultural contexts and considered normative and thus beneficial for children. Based on ethnographic int…
Developmental psychology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Attachment theory (2 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (2 works) · Breastfeeding (1 work) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (1 work)