SungHun Kim
Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Texas - Austin, 2010

PostDoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina

Dr. Kim has been interested in research topics in the areas of moral psychology, cultural psychology, health risk behaviors and their prevention as well as intervention, and research methodology. Dr. Kim's doctoral dissertation was based on a qualitative endeavor of looking into cultural psychological specificities in South Korean "laypeople's" thoughts about morality. Dr. Kim is deeply interested in examining how cultural aspects may influence people's thoughts, life-style, and decisions. Dr. Kim has joined in several different studies and project teams for health research in educational psychology and nursing. Through these opportunities, he has attained quantitative research training and experiences from data handling to consulting for data analysis. Dr. Kim particularly enjoyed analyzing and interpreting data using advanced statistical techniques such as latent modeling using structural equation modeling with longitudinal data, various parametric and non-parametric tests, and meta-analysis.

In RAPBL, Dr. Kim is very interested in investigating risk factors for substance use/abuse of ethnically diverse youths. Dr. Kim is pursuing to answer these specific questions: What are culturally distinctive aspects for youths with different cultural backgrounds when they start using substances? How do these factors influence the process of youths' substance use? Family variables as preventive or intervening factors for substance use of youths are also of interest.

In the Department of Psychology, Dr. Kim teaches Psychological Statistics.

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Forthcoming, Recent, and Representative Publications and Presentations:

• Fowles, E., Timmerman, G., Bryant, M., & Kim, S. (in press). Eating at fast food restaurants and dietary quality in low-income pregnant women. Western Journal of Nursing Research.
• Latimer, L., Walker, L. O., Kim, S., Pasch, K. E., & Sterling, B. S. (in press). Self-efficacy scale for weight loss among multi-ethnic, low-income women: A psychometric evaluation. Journal of Nutritional Education and Behavior.
• Walker, J., Kim, S., & Harrison, T. (2011, February). Risk factors for depression in Mexian American and non-Hispanic White women with mobility impairment. Paper to be pressented at the meeting of the Southern Nursing Research Society, Jacksonville, FL.
• Sterling, B. S., Fowles, E., Kim, S., Latimer, L., & Walker, L. O. (2011). Ethnic-specific perceptions of altered control among American women: Implications for health promotion programs after pregnancy. Health Care for Women International, 32, 39-56.
• Kim, S. (2010, November). Exploring naturalistic conceptions of 'a moral person' for Koreans. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Moral Education, St. Louis, MO.
• Kim, S., & Harrison, T. (2010, March). A critical review of gender issues in workerman's compensation outcomes. Paper presented at the meeting of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations, Austin, TX.
• Walker, L. O., Kim, S., Sterling, B. S., & Latimer, L. (2010). Developing health promotion interventions: A multi-source method applied to weight loss among low-income postpartum women. Public Health Nursing, 27, 188-195.
• Scott, T., Kim, S., & Harrison, T. (2009, September). Capturing the experience of disablement: Issues in using the Life History Calendar. Paper presented at the Third Conference on Aging in the Americas, Austin, TX.
• Falbo, T., Kim, S., & Chen, K. (2009). Alternate models of sibling status effects on health in later life. Developmental Psychology, 45, 677-687.

Updated February 1, 2011

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