Soohyun Cho

• Professor
• Professor (Assistant) at Keimyung University

This study aimed to confirm career stress and academic life adjustment by classifying the vocational identity status of college students. Data from 415 college students for analysis. The results were as follows. Cluster analysis showed the five clusters of vocational identity status; achieved, foreclosed, moratorium, searching moratorium, diffused....

The present study aimed to explore the profiles of academic-work mental health among Korean high school students, with a focus on academic motivation, which further contribute to providing fundamental evidence to preventive academic-work counseling. The data, self-reported by 391 students in the first and second years from 7 high schools, measured...

Background: This study aimed to identify stress mindset as an intervention factor for academic stress management within the framework of the Job Demands-Resources Model. We investigated the role of a stress mindset in the relationship between academic demands, resources, burnout, engagement as academic mental health.Methods: From the perspective of...

This study examined gender and narcissistic types as factors in the relationship between anonymity and aggression in 206 adults. Using hierarchical regression in SPSS 29.0, anonymity, aggression, overt narcissism, and covert narcissism were analyzed. Results reveal that the impact of anonymity on aggression loses significance when considering narci...

This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of teacher support in the relationship between academic burnout and self-esteem among adolescents in Korea. A total of 154 adolescents (13 years old) were followed up for 4 years at 1-year intervals. Path analysis indicated that the developmental trajectory of academic burnout (i.e. the intercept...

This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the feasibility of implementing ICT counseling on a metaverse platform, focusing on individuals struggling with smartphone overdependency. The study aims to explore the potential benefits and challenges associated with integrating a metaverse platform into ICT counseling. Out of 63 participants,...

Objective This study compared metaverse counseling with in-person counseling, using in-person counseling as a comparison group. To achieve this, we assessed whether metaverse counseling, a novel treatment approach, is comparable to traditional in-person counseling. Method: A total of 60 participants voluntarily participated in the study. Among the...

Objectives The purposes of this study were to examines the process of change in work alliances and counseling satisfaction reported by clients in video group counseling, and to explore the relationship between Big-Five personality factor. Methods For this purpose, after investigating the personality characteristics of university students who partic...

Objectives The present study aimed to investigate the certain type of significant social support in the relationship between mental state with burnout and negative discipline among infant teachers. Methods Total of 222 infant teachers participated in the study and answered the job burnout, negative discipline, and social support. The data was analy...

According to self-determination theory, intrinsic values foster personal and societal wellness, while extrinsic values detract from them. This study examined the developmental change/stability in intrinsic and extrinsic values from early to mid- and late adolescence and how these values relate to family SES. Three aspects of change/stability were e...

This study aimed to test the multilevel mediating effect of intrinsic motivation on the relationship between burned-out classroom climate and academic engagement and theoretically investigate the unresolved issues in the Job Demands-Resources model. Data were collected from 1015 high school students from 43 classes. Multilevel structural equation m...

The development of emotional exhaustion was examined at four time points across seven months among 987 high school students (female, 57.9%) in South Korea. Results of a multilevel growth model showed that the baseline and change in emotional exhaustion significantly varied across individuals and classrooms. At the individual level, depression, over...

Some issues on constructs of MBI-GS in the burnout study has been risen. Schaufeli’s team(2019) invented the new measure of Burnout Assessment Tool(BAT) as the second version of burnout inventory, which covers the problematic issues. The present study aimed to validate the BAT among the South Korean sample. The one among 23 items of BAT were exclud...

There have been numerous studies on the job stress and mental health of correctional officers. Most of them, however, focused on specific symptoms or the simple relations between various stressors and mental health. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the mechanism of the relationship between job characteristics and burnout among co...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of academic hatred, referring to the hatred of academic work, on the developmental process of the core dimensions of academic burnout, namely, emotional exhaustion and cynicism. Data were collected from 1015 (57.3% female) senior high school students in South Korea. The results showed that emotional exhaus...

Maladaptive perfectionism and controlled motivation are vulnerability factors for burnout. This study examined the relationships between two aspects of perfectionism (high standards, discrepancy), four academic motivational orientations (intrinsic, identified, introjected, extrinsic), and academic burnout. The target population was 12th graders in...

The development of emotional exhaustion was examined at four time points across seven months among 987 high school students (female, 57.9%) in South Korea. Results of a multilevel growth model showed that the baseline and change in emotional exhaustion significantly varied across individuals and classrooms. At the individual level, depression, over...

Development of academic hatred was examined at four time points across 7 months among 1,015 South Korean high school students. A multilevel growth model showed that the baseline of, and change in, academic hatred varied across individuals and classrooms. At the individual level, gender, parents’ academic pressure, depression, and test anxiety were...

This study examined the measurement invariance and latent mean difference of an English version (J. H. Lee et al., 2017) of the Planned Happenstance Career Inventory (PHCI; B. Kim, Jung, et al., 2014) across cultures. Participants were 262 American and 291 South Korean undergraduates. Measurement invariance results indicated that the 5‐factor struc...

This study examined the cross-cultural validity of the Planned Happenstance Career Inventory (PHCI) for a sample of 262 U.S. college students. The original 5-factor structure of the Korean PHCI was supported in the U.S. sample. Further analysis with career decision self-efficacy and vocational identity status showed evidence of convergent and diver...