Hyoun K Kim

• Ph.D.
• Professor at Yonsei University

The increasing body of studies on intimate partner violence (IPV) and its’ high prevalence worldwide signify heightened scholarly and societal interest. This is especially pertinent as IPV has recently penetrated broader contexts, including the digital world, and manifested in more diverse and complex forms. Building on Capaldi et al. (2012), this...

본 연구는 청소년의 또래괴롭힘 피해 경험과 자아가치의 관계에서 성격적 자기비난과 내재화 문제의 이중매개효과를 검증하고 한국과 미국 간 차이를 분석하고자 하였다. 이에 한국 3개 도시의 4개 중학교와 미국 Alabama 주 3개 중학교에서 동일한 문항으로 수집된 총 754명(한국 462명; 만 12∼15세)의 자료를 사용하여 경로분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과, 한국과 미국 모두 성격적 자기비난과 내재화 문제의 이중매개효과가 유의하였으며, 두 국가 간 차이는 없었다. 본 연구결과는 또래괴롭힘 피해 경험이 자아가치에 미치는 부정적인 영향 완화를 위한 방안 마련에 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. The curren...

This study proposes a new application of AcciMap, a tool initially created within safety science. AcciMap assists designers by identifying and anticipating systemic conditions that have contributed to prior failures and may influence the implementation of new design interventions. For validation, we applied AcciMap to analyze factors contributing t...

This study examined how religious participation at the individual level and the dyadic religious similarity at the couple level influenced depressive symptoms via social relationships among older Korean couples aged 65 and above. The sample included 1,191 couples from the seventh assessment of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing. The findings i...

Objectives: With the advent of worldwide internet networks in the digital age, digital competence can play an important role in decreasing loneliness and social isolation in older adults. This study characterized different patterns of digital competence among older adults and examined their associations with loneliness and social isolation. Metho...

This study explored the digital aging experiences of older adults who create digital content from the perspective that older adults are active participants in the current digital society. Eight older adults who had been creating digital content for at least six months shared their experiences. The interview data were analyzed based on the Grounded...

This study specifically focused on the gender differences in longitudinal pathways among social withdrawal, peer relationships, and smartphone dependency of 9 to 13-year-old children. The first(2018, 4th grade), second(2019, 5th grade), and third(2020, 6th grade) waves of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey(KCYPS) 2018 were used, and data on...

This study provided empirical evidence on the effectiveness of family—friendly policies(FFPs) by investigating whether fathers’ use of FFPs, such as fathers’ division of parental involvement and family flexibility, had a longitudinal effect on co-parenting and children’s executive functions. Data from parents and children of 763 families from the 8...

Objectives: This study sought to identify families’ digital communication abilities through latent profile analysis (LPA) and examine how such profiles would be associated with parents’ mediation of the internet and smart devices.Methods: The analysis included 284 families with elementary school children (284 fathers, 284 mothers, and 284 children)...

This study examined the longitudinal developmental pathways of children’s media device addiction level in early adolescence (age 11 years). Using data from Panel Study of Korean Children data on 1,994 households (W2-W12), direct effects of interparental conflict (at age 1-4 years) mediating roles of parental warmth (at age 5-6 years) and children’s...

A majority of mothers experience parenting stress in daily life; however high levels of maternal stress have been recognized as a risk factor for children's developmental outcomes. We examined trajectories of maternal parenting stress across childhood, and their longitudinal relations to children's executive function and school adjustment. Data wer...

This study aimed to analyze the mediating effect of digital literacy on the association between digital technology use and intergenerational integration in later life. The sample included 315 older Korean adults aged 65 and above (M=68.83, SD=4.19, range=65-84) who participated in an online survey in December 2021. The participants’ use of digital...

Dyadic coping is a daily interpersonal process that married couples use to manage stress and maintain their marriage. However, little is known about its mediating role in the association between empathic response and marital quality among same-sex and different-sex couples. This study aimed to examine the extent to which dyadic coping mediates the...

Although many social services are getting digitalized with the rapidly growing digital technology, there is little information available on the specific process of meeting personal needs in digital aging contexts. The present study examined the serial mediation model from digital assistant to unmet needs via internet self-efficacy and digital citiz...

This study aims to elucidate the heterogeneous associations between digital technology use and social capital by social class. The sample comprises 315 Korean older people who are 65 years old or older and participated in an online survey. Digital technology use was measured by the frequency of independent use in four areas of digital technology: p...

The present study examined the extent to which online communication skills led to the degree of intergenerational integration mediated through loneliness, focusing on whether such a mediating path would be moderated by age groups. Intergenerational integration is a concept that emphasizes acceptance and flexibility to recognize diversity based on e...

Objectives: This study examined the extent to which children’s self-esteem influenced their smartphone dependency through social withdrawal and whether this mediating path would vary depending on parents’ provision of structure.Methods: This study included data on 2,394 fourth-grade elementary school children(boys, n = 1191; M = 10 years old, SD =...

The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal ( Social Preference Scale–Revised; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students ( N = 4,397; M age = 20.08 years, SD = 2.96; 66% females)...

This study examined the extent to which cumulative family risks at age 1 influenced children's school readiness (i.e., academic and socio-emotional skills) during the transition to school directly or indirectly through maternal parenting stress and responsive parenting behaviors at age 3, using 2 longitudinal data sets, one from the U.S. (the Fragi...

Objectives: This study examines the extent to which preschool teachers’ adaptability influences their burnout, focusing on the double mediating effects of digital literacy and teaching efficacy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether such effects are influenced by online teaching experiences. It aims to highlight the importance of teachers’ adapt...

This study aimed at examining the mediation effects of depressive symptoms on the association between social activity participation and marital satisfaction among couples in later life. The study included 1,196 married couples aged 65 or above who participated in the 7th Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging in 2018. The study variables were husbands’...

Preadolescents with a history of foster care placement report suicidal ideation (SI) at higher rates than their peers, which increases their risk for suicide attempts in adolescence. Despite these increased risks, few interventions have been shown to reduce SI in these youth. This study examined the main and mediated long-term effects of a program...

The transition to kindergarten is considered as one of the most significant developmental milestones in childhood. Although the significance of parental caregiving for child school readiness is well documented, it remains relatively unknown how dynamic interplay of maternal and paternal caregiving unfolds over time to promote school readiness, medi...

This study introduces Action Research to present a service program through an interdisciplinary service design approach for promoting the residential stability of elderly people. We extracted design elements (1) “things to do” and (2) “community” and “strategies”, and then made a design framework. According to the framework, we developed a service...

To examine the longitudinal effects of family-friendly policies (FFPs) in mothers’ workplaces, 640 dual-earner (DE) families with a child aged zero to three from the Panel Study on Korean Children were analyzed. The study examined whether the families would be characterized by different latent profiles regarding DE status as well as the quantity (e...

Exposure to childhood maltreatment is a significant risk factor for the development and persistence of problematic alcohol use. The present study examined the role of risk taking and inhibitory control, key cognitive processes believed to govern behavioral regulation, as mechanisms that underlie the association between childhood maltreatment and th...

Adolescents’ dyadic relationships are likely influenced by the cultural context within which they exist. This study applied a person‐oriented approach to examine how perceived support and negativity were manifested across youths’ relationships with mothers, fathers, and best friends, simultaneously, and how distinct relationship profiles were linke...

Using a long-term prospective longitudinal study of U.S. men and their fathers, the present study examined the extent to which the quantity (i.e., shared activities between fathers and sons) and the quality (i.e., assessors’ ratings of fathers’ positive behaviors toward sons and the relationship quality between fathers and sons) of father involveme...

The kindergarten transition is a time when both children and parents face changes in routines, environments, and peers. The new cognitive and behavioral expectations for children at school may also require enhanced parenting skills. Thus, programming to support the transition to kindergarten for children requires a two-generational approach. This c...

Early adverse experiences are believed to have a profound effect on inhibitory control and the underlying neural regions. In the current study, behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data were collected during a go/no-go task from adolescents who were involved with the child welfare system due to child maltreatment ( n = 129) and low-income,...

As interests in fathers’ role in parenting grew, various agencies, including both government and private institutes in Korea, have been implementing programs to promote fathering in Korea. However, there is a very limited knowledge base to adequately support the translational work (i.e., development, evaluation, dissemination, and implementation of...

Whether a child enters formal schooling with appropriate school readiness skills—the critical skills necessary to succeed—can influence that child’s academic and psychosocial trajectories throughout the school years. Children who have been placed into out-of-home care (OHC) during their preschool years may show deficits in their school readiness sk...

Objectives: Despite growing concerns about the heavy reliance on supplementary grandchild care in Korea, understanding of its longitudinal effects on the grandparents’ mental health has been limited. This study examined whether transition patterns of grandchild care among Korean grandparents were associated with changes in the grandparents’ depress...

There has been a growing interest in paternal involvement in childcare. Drawn upon the life course theory, which assumes that an individual's life course is embedded within the historical time and place, it was hypothesized that the association between fathers' involvement in childcare and their physical and psychological adjustment would differ by...

본 연구는 아버지 직장의 가족친화제도 시행 및 아버지의 가족친화제도 이용이 아버지, 어머니, 아동의 행복감에 미치는 직･간접적 영향과 맞벌이 여부의 조절효과를 검증하였다. 한국아동패널 8차년도에 참여한 1,365가족(맞벌이 612, 외벌이 753)의 아버지, 어머니, 7세 아동을 대상으로 구조방정식모형과 다집단분석을 실시하였다. 연구 결과, 첫째, 아버지 직장에서 많은 가족친화제도를 시행할수록 아버지의 양육참여를 높임으로써 맞벌이가족 아버지의 행복감이 증진되고, 어머니의 행복감은 맞벌이 여부와 관련 없이 증진되었다. 둘째, 아버지가 가족친화제도를 많이 이용할수록 그의 양육참여가 높아짐으로써 아버지, 어머니, 아동 모두의...

The purpose of this study was to classify latent profiles of CBCL and to identify the Dysregulation Profile in CBCL(CBCL-DP) in juvenile probationers. The CBCL-DP is conceptualized as a broad syndrome of dysregulation, indicating regulation problems in affective(Anxious/Depressed), behavioral(Aggressive Behavior), and cognitive(Attentional Problem)...

Objective: Children who have experienced maltreatment and subsequent placement in foster care are at increased risk of problem behavior. Increased knowledge of the development of problem behavior in this population, particularly during toddlerhood, can greatly inform preventive intervention efforts. This study examined variability in problem behav...

The current literature suggests that juvenile probationers may be characterized by heterogeneous behavioral problem patterns and these heterogeneous problems may be associated with different risk factors. The purpose of this study was to examine the heterogeneous patterns of behavioral problems, and to identify risk factors differently associated w...

This study examined the extent to which mothers’ and fathers’ effortful control influenced the development of their children’s effortful control and subsequent academic adjustment directly and indirectly through parenting behaviors, using 2-wave panel data on 297 school-age children (159 girls, ages 10–11 at Time 1 [T1] and 12–13 years at Time 2 [T...

Because the period of transition at the beginning of kindergarten can potentially impact an individual’s overall development, preventive intervention at the transition to kindergarten could have long-lasting and widespread impacts on the lives of children and their families. In this chapter, we present the Kids in Transition to School (KITS) Progra...

Although prior research has characterized stress system reactivity (i.e. hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, HPAA; autonomic nervous system, ANS) in children, it has yet to examine the extent to which biological reactivity predicts concurrent goal-directed behavior. Here, we employed a stressor paradigm that allowed concurrent assessment of both s...

Youth in foster care are particularly likely to do poorly in school. They have higher rates of suspension, use of special education services, and dropout. They also tend to have lower educational attainment overall than their peers who are not in foster care. There are a number of potential reasons for this poor performance; most are linked to the...

Maternal history of childhood abuse has consistently been linked to increased risk for poor emotional adjustment and parenting as an adult. The aim of this study was to examine a model that may explain the link between maternal history of childhood abuse and mothers’ tendencies to respond negatively to their adolescent children's negative emotions....

Developmental trajectories of health risking behaviors (HRBs) in Korean youth (aged 17–20 years) were examined using multi-group latent growth modeling focusing on alcohol use, smoking, and sexual behaviors. Gender differences and effects of early risk factors were also investigated. The Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS) data on 2,351...

Maltreated children in foster care are at high risk for dysregulated hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis functioning and educational difficulties. The present study examined the effects of a short-term school readiness intervention on HPA axis functioning in response to the start of kindergarten, a critical transition marking entry to formal...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the dynamic process of disclosure within the adolescent-mother relationship by examining how maternal personal distress and validation of adolescent negative affect would be related to adolescent disclosure of a distressing experience for the first time. A community sample of 66 mothers and their...

Substance use problems are highly prevalent among youth in foster care. Such problems in adolescence have long-lasting implications for subsequent adjustment throughout adulthood and even across generations. Although several programs have demonstrated positive results in reducing substance use in at-risk youth, few studies have systemically examine...

Full article available: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ccMsdKVvWzvkTmFTzve2/full Background: Among children diagnosed with developmental delays, difficulties in self-regulation are prominent and have been linked to school readiness problems. Objective: The current study sought to examine the impact of the Kids In Transition to School (KITS) sc...

Prior research has identified the presence of executive function (EF) deficits in child protective service (CPS) involved (versus non-involved) children but minimal work has examined predictors that might explain individual differences within these CPS-involved children. Here, we sought to characterize EF in a large sample (N=694) of CPS-involved c...

Two hundred and nine children receiving early childhood special education services for developmental disabilities or delays who also had behavioral, social, or attentional difficulties were included in a study of an intervention to increase school readiness, including early literacy skills. Results showed that the intervention had a significant pos...

Children in foster care are at high risk for poor psychosocial outcomes, including school failure, alcohol and other substance abuse, and criminal behaviors. Promoting healthy development by increasing broad-impact positive skills may help reduce some of the risk factors for longer-term negative outcomes. School readiness has been linked to a numbe...

The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis is a critical component of the body’s stress-response neurobiological system, and its development and functioning are shaped by the social environment. Much of our understanding of the effects of the caregiving environment on the HPA axis is based on (a) parenting in young children and (b) individual ma...

Child maltreatment exacts a huge toll on both individuals and society. In 2012 alone, an estimated 3.4 million allegations of child maltreatment involving approximately 6.3 million U.S. children were made. Annually, the total cost of the U.S. Child Welfare System exceeds $26 billion. At the individual level, child maltreatment victims are at dispro...

Second-generation Latin-American adolescents tend to show higher levels of various health-risking behaviors and emotional problems than first-generation Latin-American adolescents. This cross-sectional study of 40 mother-adolescent dyads examined the association of mother-youth acculturation gaps to youth adjustment problems. Intergenerational accu...

The proportion of the juvenile justice population that comprises females is increasing, yet few evidence-based models have been evaluated and implemented with girls in the juvenile justice system. Although much is known about the risk and protective factors for girls who participate in serious delinquency, significant gaps in the research base hamp...

Childhood maltreatment has lasting negative effects throughout the life span. Early intervention research has demonstrated that these effects can be remediated through skill-based, family-centered interventions. However, less is known about plasticity during adolescence, and whether interventions are effective many years after children experience m...

Few prospective studies have examined school mobility in children in foster care. This study described the school moves of 86 such children and 55 community comparison children (primarily Caucasian), living in a medium-sized metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest who were approximately 3 to 6 years old at the study start. Additionally, the effe...

Risk factors for the childhood development of co-occurring internalizing and externalizing symptoms are not well understood, despite a high prevalence and poor clinical outcomes associated with this co-occurring phenotype. We examined inherited and environmental risk factors for co-occurring symptoms in a sample of children adopted at birth and the...

Aggression and coercive behaviors in the form of physical assaults, psychological aggression, and sexual coercion—often referred to as intimate partner violence (IPV)—are highly prevalent in couples during early adulthood (ages 18 through 29 years). Although such IPV has long been recognized as a major public health problem, the existing interventi...

One of the strongest predictors of healthy child development is the quality of maternal care. Although many measures of observation and self-report exist in humans to assess global aspects of maternal care, such qualitative measures are lacking in nonhuman primates. In this study, we developed an instrument to measure global aspects of maternal car...

Identifying neurocognitive processes associated with effective inhibitory control is particularly relevant for individuals at high risk for disruptive behaviors, such as maltreated children. Performance feedback processing during a flanker task was investigated in maltreated preschool-aged children (N = 67) via an event-related potential component,...