Uichol Kim

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• Professor Emeritus at Inha University

This article examines the software of the mind, self, and culture that can explain the secrets to happiness, health, and long life. First, this article outlines the assumption of objectivity in science, and the importance of understanding the subjective and creative aspects of science. Second, Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory is introduced,...

This volume brings together leading scholar around the world to highlight the importance of individualism and collectivism to expand the traditional individualistic bias in psychology and the West. In this volume, exports from a variety of disciplines, perspectives, and cultures examine the theoretical underpinnngs and currents trends, the state of...

The understanding of the nature and the software of the mind has generated immense debate in religion, philosophy, sciences and psychology. Drucker notes that the basic assumption about the reality is the foundation for science, axiom and algorithm adopted for the theory, concept and method. The assumption differentiates what is important from what...

The introduction dedicates the Special Issue to Prof. Durganand Sinha who launched the Psychology and Developing Societies 35 years ago and established the field of indigenous psychology in India.

This thematic issue of Psychology and Developing Societies is dedicated to the memory of its founding editor, Durganand Sinha. The Department of Psychology at the University of Allahabad is presently celebrating his Centenary. Nothing would have given him more happiness than to know that the journal he helped to start in the Department of Psycholog...

The goal of the Special Issue is to connect theory development with a program of research to understand how the theory has been developed, tested, and applied in different parts of the world and to examine how it promotes scientific progress and positive societal change. The global community is facing many crises and challenges (e.g., recovering fr...

This study examines the conception of filial piety among parents of children and adolescents and provides a conceptualization of their perceptions of these notions. In order to examine the developmental trajectory, parents of elementary, middle and high school children and their perceptions of filial piety and also sex differences were examined. Mo...

The purpose of this research is to examine the factors that influence happiness among Korean adults. To this end, we have examined the influence of socio-economic status, monthly income, position in a company, type of occupation, occupational achievement, marital status, single or double income family, number of children, and the success of childre...

This paper examines the scientific foundation of indigenous and cultural psychology. First, the author outlines the positivistic model adopted by general and cross-cultural psychology and their inherent limitations in explaining psychological phenomena. Second, the author outlines the transactional model of science that allows us to examine the int...

The purpose of this study is to examine the experience of stress, coping and social support among students and their parents after Korea recovered from the recent economic crisis. A total of 634 students(primary school=135, junior high school=118, senior high school=168, and university =213) and 842 parents (fathers=421, mothers= 421), for a total...

This paper examines factors that influence the propagation of safety culture and consciousness in the workplace by focusing on the following two aspects of education: environmental and psychological factors. The environmental factor focuses specifically on the impact of 1997 government deregulations on industrial and occupational safety. A survey q...

Factors influencing happiness among Korean adolescents: With specific focus on the influence of psychological, relational and financial resources and academic achievement The purpose of this research examines the factors that influence happiness among Korean adolescents by focusing on psychological resource (as measured by self-efficacy), relation...

This paper examines the influence of interpersonal relationship on delinquent behavior among adolescents. The role that parent-child relationship, teacher-student relationship, and relationship with friends play on delinquent behavior is reviewed. Review of empirical studies reveal the following results. First, adolescents who perceive their parent...

This study investigates happy life experiences and their emotional responses to these experiences with a sample of Korean students and adults. A total of 489 Korean university students and adults completed an open-ended questionnaire developed by the present researchers. Three sets of results have been found. First, while experiences of achievement...

The purpose of this study is to examine factors influencing quality of life for individuals in the family, school or workplace, leisure settings, and Korean society using the indigenous psychological analysis. A total of 3,406 participants, consisting of 1,331 elementary, middle, high school students and 2,075 parents and teacher, completed an open...

This study examines factors influencing family life-satisfaction, focusing specifically on the role of spousal social support, trust of children and self-efficacy. Based on previous studies, two hypotheses were generated. A total of 857 adults (111 fathers and 111 mothers parents of elementary school students and 108 mothers and 108 fathers of high...

The present study examined the psychological and behavioral pattern of Korean adolescents and the role that their friends, family and school play in influencing their psychological functioning. A total of 5,504 junior high school students living in five different provinces, both in rural or urban setting, completed a survey questionnaire. The quest...

This study examines the conception of the self using indigenous, cultural and psychological analysis. The self is viewed from four aspects: (1) conception of the self as an entity (the self in general, the self as an unique entity and the self when alone), (2) conception of self in the context of family (the self when with mother, father, children...

This study analyzes the developmental pattern of parental social support, adolescents' self-efficacy and life-satisfaction longitudinally. The second purpose of the study is to examine the causal model developed by the present researchers that examine the influence of social support on self-efficacy and life-satisfaction. A total of 486 grade six s...

This study examines the basis of trust in relationships by adolescents and their parents using the indigenous psychological approach. Using the indigenous methodology, adolescents were asked the reasons why they trusted their mother, father, friends, and teachers. Parents were asked why they trusted their children, spouse and their children's teach...

The purpose of this study is to analyze secondary school teachers' perception of teacher training programs and to seek ways to improve the training system in Korea by analyzing the teachers training programs outside of Korea. A total of 474 secondary school teachers (132 males, 342 female) completed a questionnaire developed by Kim and Park (2005)...

This article examined the factors that influence life-satisfaction and academic grade among primary, junior high, and senior high school students. A total of 3,095 students (961 primary, 898 junior high, and 1,236 senior high students) completed a questionnaire developed by the first two authors and self-efficacy scale developed by Bandura(1995). R...

This paper examines the relationship among six attributional style (effort, ability, fate, luck, ingroup support, and outgroup influence) and with various psychological and behavioral variables. In the first study a total of 882 students (882 primary school, 184 junior high school, 178 preparatory high school, 160 vocational high school, and 175 un...

This study analyzes factors influencing happiness among middle-aged women and men by comparing housewives and working women and their spouse. A total of 1,650 respondents consisting of 825 women (housewife=404, working woman=421) and 825 men (spouse of housewife=404, spouse of working woman=421) completed a questionnaire containing the following sc...

This article reviews factor influencing organizational culture of Korean companies by reviewing psychological, organizational and cultural basis of interpersonal relationship and group dynamics.

By using the indigenous psychologies approach, this study examines the stress experience during an economic crisis in Korea (i.e., in which Korea received economic assistance from the International Monetary Fund). This study compares the results of a previous study y6676 conducted in 1997 by the present authors before the onset of the economic cris...

The present paper examines trust, interpersonal relationship, and civil society in Scandinavia and East Asia. In the first section, the concepts of trust and democracy are defined. In the second section, the cultural transformations that paved the way for the development of democracy in the West and Scandinavia are reviewed. In the third section, t...

This study examines factors influencing family life-satisfaction, focusing specifically on the role of spousal social support, trust of children and self-efficacy. Based on previous studies, two hypotheses were generated. A total of 857 adults (111 fathers and 111 mothers parents of elementary school students and 108 mothers and 108 fathers of high...

This study examines generational differences and life-satisfaction among a sample of adolescents, adults, and elderly. A total of 2,789 participants (1,298 male, 1,489 female participants, and 2 missing) of which 981 were adolescents, 1,661 were adults, and 147 were elderly, completed a survey developed by the present researchers, in addition to th...

This study examines the stress experience of salaried employees and the unemployed during the economic crisis in Korea (i.e., in which Korea received economic assistance from the International Monetary Fund). By using a questionnaire developed by the present researchers in 1997, participants were asked to write, in an open-ended response format, wh...

This study investigates Koreans respondents' perception of American society, American people and its influence in Korea and the world. These analyses have been conducted to provide the psychological, social and cultural basis for understanding the anti-American sentiments among Korean junior high school students, university students and adults. Ame...

This study examines adolescent delinquent behavior and the influence of friends, focusing specifically on friends' delinquent behavior and the influence of self-efficacy, parent-child conflict and parental control. A total of 1,399 adolescents attending five different high schools (male=642, female=756, consisting of 915 student attending high scho...

This article examines the Korean adolescents and adults' social representation and trust of Korean society and people using indigenous psychological analysis. Respondents were asked to write in an open-ended questionnaire their perception of the following five aspects: Korean politics, economy, society, culture and people. They were then asked to r...

This article examines the factors that influence life-satisfaction and academic grade among primary, junior high, and senior high school students. A total of 3,095 students (961 primary, 898 junior high, and 1,236 senior high students) completed a questionnaire developed by the first two authors and self-efficacy scale developed by Bandura(1995). R...

By using the indigenous psychologies approach, this study examines the stress experience of Korean students and adults during an economic crisis in Korea (i.e., 1998, the period in which Korea received economic assistance from the International Monetary Fund). This study also compares the results of a previous study conducted in 1997 by the present...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of trust in Korean culture using the indigenous psychological analysis. First, this paper raises central questions that arise in Korean families, schools, companies and society: 1) Why are some Korean families disintegrating? 2) What core values do Korean schools teach? 3) What are the goals that...

This study examines the conception of filial piety among parents of children and adolescents and provides a conceptualization of their perception. In order to examine the developmental trajectory, parents of elementary, middle and high school children and their perception of filial piety and also sex differences are examined. Moreover, the influenc...

This study examines the perception of success among Korean students and their parents by focusing on indigenous psychological analysis of success experience, social support and the reason for success. A total of 2,499 participants, consisting of 833 adolescents (elementary school students=203, middle school students=218, high school students=216, a...

This article examines factors that influence health and quality of life. In addition to the symptomatology and physiological functioning, the influence of the psychological functioning and interpersonal relationship on the overall health and quality of life are also investigated. Using a case-study approach, a total of 70 patients suffering from al...

This study examines generational differences and similarities between adolescents and adults. A total of 2,548 participants (982 adolescents and 1,566 adults) completed a survey developed by the present researchers, in addition to the self-efficacy subscales developed by Bandura (1997). The results indicated significant differences between adolesce...

This study examined the safety consciousness of a total of 1,074 students (200 primary school, 241 junior high school, 206 preparatory high school, 211 vocational high school, and 206 university). The students completed an indigenous survey developed by the authors, which included the following questions: (1) describe accidents that you have person...

This study examines factors that influence delinquent behavior among Korean adolescents using longitudinal analysis. A total of 1,012 students completed a questionnaire when they were Grade 6 and 739 students completed a follow-up questionnaire when they became Grade 9. Results of multiple regression analysis indicate that the following variables p...

Psychological, behaviorial, and relational characteristics of school violence Comparative analysis of victims, bullies, non-participants

This study investigates Koreans respondents' perception of American society, American people and its influence in Korea and the world. These analyses have been conducted to provide the psychological, social and cultural basis for understanding the anti-American sentiments among Korean junior high school students, university students and adults. Ame...

By adopting the indigenous psychologies approach (Kim & Berry, 1993), this study examines types of personal achievements that Korean students and adults view as success in their life and the individual, interpersonal, and social factors that led to the success. The goal of indigenous psychologies approach is to develop theories, concepts, and metho...

This study examines adolescents' causal attribution of accidents and their cognitive representation of safety using the indigenous psychology approach. In addition, this study examined safety efficacy beliefs with a sample of primary, junior high, senior high, and university students. A total sample of 1,074 adolescents participated in the study (p...

This article examines factors that influence the overall quality of life and factors that influence quality of life at home, school, work and leisure settings. Using the indigenous psychological approach, a total of 3,406 participants (1,331 adolescents 2,075 adults) completed an open-ended questionnaire developed by the present authors. First, for...

The purpose of this research is to examine ways to reduce industrial accidents by implementing effective safety education programs. In the first study, focus group interviews were conducted with employees working in the manufacturing and construction sector, safety mangers, and government officials to identify factors that are associated with indus...

Korean society has significantly changed with the onset of a dramatic economic crisis in 1998. From 2000, however, the Korean economy has recovered and currently Korea is enjoying a similar standard of living and economic growth as the pre-1998 levels. This study is a follow-up analysis, comparing the results examining the success attribution of Ko...

This study investigates how Korean children and adolescents perceive their parents using the indigenous psychological approach. An open-ended questionnaire was developed by the first two authors to investigate reasons why children and adolescents feel grateful, respect, indebted, close, conflict, and distance with their parents. A total of 763 part...

This paper examines the changes in family values in Korea by examining values of children, socialization values, and social support of elderly parents with young and olders mothers. A total of 314 mothers of infants (young mothers) and 395 mothers of adolescents (older mothers) completed a questionnaire compiled by Schwarz, Chakkarath, Trommsdorff,...

The purpose of this study is to examine the experience of stress, coping and social support among students and their parents after Korea recovered from the recent economic crisis. A total of 634 students (primary school=135, junior high school=118, senior high school=168, and university=213) and 842 parents (fathers=421, mothers= 421), for a total...

This paper examines the influence of parent child relationship on achievement motivation and academic achievement of Korean adolescents. To understand the achievement motivation and academic achievement, an indigenous analysis of Korean culture and psychological functioning of Korean adolescents is provided, with specific focus on the role of paren...

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the probabilistic versus deterministic view of accident and safety using the indigenous and cultural perspectives. Death and injury due to accidents is the leading cause of preventable death in most countries, including Korea. The first part of this paper delineates the limitation of the linear, determi...

This study examines the basis and change of delinquent behavior among Korean adolescents. Theoretical framework was developed and qualitative analysis of delinquency behavior was examined. In order to understand the basis and change of juvenile delinquency, the influence of family environment, school environment and individual factors were investig...

The purpose of this research is to examine the self-concept in the cyberspace, self-efficacy, relationship with friends, subjective well-being and academic grade among adolescents who are addicted to Internet and those who are not addicted to Internet. A total of 1,057 adolescents (male=545, female=512), 326 from middle school, 361 from high school...

This paper provides a theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding adolescent culture and educational achievement in Korea. In the first part of the paper, the authors outline a research paradigm in cultural psychology and adolescent culture. In the second section, the traditional family structure, the role of parents, and how they have b...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature and process of educational achievement in Korean society, focussing specifically on the psychological, indigenous, and cultural perspectives. In the first part of this paper, the authors reviews the educational aspiration and attainment of Korean students and adults. The second part of this paper e...

This study examines factors that influence cyber delinquency among Korean adolescents, focusing specifically on the influence of parents, friends, moral disengagement and relational efficacy. A total of 678 adolescents(elementary school students=366, high school students=312) of both sexes completed a questionnaire developed by the present research...

This article reviews the current literature on the nature of achievement motivation, self-efficacy and academic achievement of Korean students. The first part of this paper outlines Bandura's formulation of self-efficacy and reviews empirical studies conducted using the scales developed by Bandura and by the presentation researchers. Using both lon...

This paper examines the occupational safety and safety education in Korea, with specific focus on organizational cultures that promotes or fails to promote occupational safety. In the present study one hospital was selected for an intensive case review. In the hospital, 51 out of 67 employees who were hospitalized due to an occupational injury were...

The paper analyzes the concepts of authority, authoritarianism, and chemyon ("face") in Korean culture using the indigenous psychologies approach. The present authors explore the relationship between the concept of "face" and authority conceptually and empirically. The concepts of chemyon and authority in Korea must be understood in the cultural an...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between quality of life and interpersonal relationships among Korean adolescents through a review empirical studies conducted in this area. There are three main themes that are articulated. First, indigenous psychological analysis is critical in understanding the influence of interpersonal...

This study examines the impact of the changing parent-child relationship on adolescents' achievement motivation, life-satisfaction, academic grade, and delinquent behavior with a sample of 1,074 students (primary school=278, junior high school=266, senior high school=252, and university=269). In all groups parental academic pressure and perceived w...

This study examines longitudinally influences that parents have on their children's academic achievement and the mediating role of various psychological factors. In terms of parents-child relationship, the following variables are examined: Social support from parents, achievement pressure, parental expectation, sense of indebtedness to parents, and...

The purpose of this study is to examine value of children among high school students and their parents in Korea using the indigenous psychological analysis. A total of 1,005 participants (335 high school students, 335 fathers, and 335 mothers) completed an open-ended questionnaire developed by Park and Kim (2005). Results for both generations indic...

This study examined the relationship among self-efficacy, social support, and life-satisfaction among 1,474 students (999 students living in a urban area and 475 students living in rural areas). Using the covariance structure modeling (LISREL 8), the relationship among three constructs were investigated. There was a significant direct effect of soc...

This study analyzes the developmental pattern of parental social support, adolescents' self-efficacy and life-satisfaction longitudinally. The second purpose of the study is to examine the causal model developed by the present researchers that examine the influence of social support on self-efficacy and life-satisfaction. A total of 486 grade six s...

This article examines the cost of pressure to achieve in Korea, which is the theme of the special issue focusing on the psychological dynamics and factors influencing delinquent behavior among Korea adolescents. This article reviews empirical studies of delinquent behavior among Korean adolescent and articulate policy and programs necessary to prev...

This article examines the role and influence of educational achievement on Korean society and its future. Four major factors that associated with and influence educational achievement in Korea (i.e., trust, efficacy beliefs, quality of life, and societal transformation) are reviewed. First, the role of educational achievement on establishing a basi...

This study examined the concept of stress as perceived by Korean students and adults adopting the indigenous psychologies approach. The goal of the indigenous psychologies approach is to develop appropriate theories and methodologies that are sensitive to, and meaningful in, a particular cultural and social context. From this perspective, rather th...

This study examines the perception and trust of Korean society and people among students and adults using the indigenous psychological analysis. A matched sample of 1,107 participants, consisting of 369 students, their mothers and their fathers completed a questionnaire developed by the present researchers. The results indicate that parents more li...

The special issue of Korean Journal of Psychological and Social Issues focuses on the educational achievement in Korea. This article reviews the following five themes: (1) Theoretical analysis of educational achievement; (2) Educational achievement of Korean adolescents; (3) Delinquency among Korean adolescents; (4) Cultural context and cross-natio...

The purpose of this study is to examine the perception of structure filial piety and outline psychological dynamics of developmental process of filial behavior. To examine the perception of filial piety and its structure and dynamics, this study analyzes filial behavior and expression to parents, the best way to be filial, reasons to be filial, and...

This study examines stress, coping style, and life-satisfaction of Koreans living during national economic crisis. This research focuses on four following aspects: 1) compare stressful events, coping style, and life-satisfaction among primary, junior high, senior high school students, and their parents and also sex differences; 2) within student sa...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of trust in Korean culture using the indigenous psychological analysis. First, this paper raises central questions that arise in Korean families, schools, companies and society: 1) Why are some Korean families disintegrating? 2) What core values do Korean schools teach? 3) What are the goals that...

The purpose of this study is to analyze factors that influence job satisfaction and occupational achievement of elementary school teachers, focusing specifically on the mediating role played by social support and self-efficacy. A total of 355 elementary school teachers, who are participating in teachers' training program, completed a questionnaire...

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of human relationship, moral disengagement, personality and general delinquency on cyber delinquency among university students. Cyber delinquency includes addiction to internet games, verbal abuse, cyber fraud, sexual delinquency and leakage of personal information. Human relationships assess th...

This article compares the psychological and behavioral profiles of adolescents on probation and high school students. A total of 253 adolescents on probation and 257 high school students completed an open-ended questionnaire developed by the present researchers and structured questionnaire that assessed moral disengagement and self-efficacy develop...

This study examines the basis and change of delinquent behavior among Korean adolescents. Theoretical framework was developed and qualitative analysis of delinquency behavior was examined. In order to understand the basis and change of juvenile delinquency, the influence of family environment, school environment and individual factors were investig...

This study examines factors that influence delinquency among adolescents under probation using indigenous psychological analysis, focusing specifically on parent-child relationship. A total 268 adolescents under probation and their parents and 251 high school students and their parents participated in the two studies. In the first study, qualitativ...

The article reviews key questions that are central to developing countries and provide a case study of South Korea (abbreviated as Korea): How could one of the poorest country in the world transform to become the 10th largest economy in the world? What are the psychological, relational, social and cultural impact of rapid economic development in Ko...

This books is the Korean translation of Moral Disengagement: How people do harm and live with themselves written by Albert Bandura. This book describes the process of actively disengaging from one's moral standard, values and compass to justify immoral, unethical and harmful behavior and at the same time feel good about oneself. This is how crimina...

Korean translation of Prof. Gerald Huether's Co-creativity and Community. Prof. Huether, a leading neurobiologist at University of Goettingen, Germany, describes our brain as a social construction. We are born with up to 100 billion brains cells with 100 trillion possible connections. When we are born, these brain cells are not connected, and our e...

This book describe how children develop in a supportive family and community so that children can unfold their creative potential and develop genuine and caring relationship. The books describe how our brain works, develops and functions through positive experience and relationship that allow children to discover and develop their full potential. T...