J H Jung
Biographic Data
| ID | 18732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J H Jung |
| GIVEN NAMES | J H |
| FAMILY NAME | Jung |
| SIGNATURE | JUNG J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sungkyunkwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1875-296X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Spousal Loss, Depressive Symptoms, and Religious Involvement: Immediate Impact and Trajectories in Late Life
Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data, we examined the immediate and long-term buffering effects of religious involvement on late-life spousal loss. Using seven waves of data (2006–2018) from the Health and Retirement Study ( N = 4714; Obs. = 18,212), we conducted ordinary least squares regression and growth curve analyses. Recent spousal loss was strongly associated with increased depressive symptoms, which gradually decreased over time. R…
Belief in Supernatural Agents and Lay Explanations About the Causes of Poverty
Sociologists have long been interested in the connection between religion and stratification beliefs. The present study extends this line of inquiry by examining how belief in supernatural agents—belief in divine support and belief in supernatural evil—shapes public opinion about the causes of poverty. In addition, it investigates how the effects of these beliefs are conditional upon political orientation. An analysis of data from a nationwide su…
Access to Network Social Capital and Health Outcomes in Later Life: Understanding the Role of Tie Strength
Our study contributes to the scholarship by examining the concrete ways in which two distinct types of interpersonal connection—strong/close versus weak/distant—are independently related to self-rated health and life satisfaction cross-nationally. In addition, we explore whether and how the two types of interpersonal connection modify the magnitude of the associations between subjective social status (SSS) and health and well-being of older popul…
Can religion decrease distress and increase flourishing in times of pandemic? A three-wave longitudinal study of religious commitment in Indonesia
Masculine God Imagery Shapes the Association between Empathic Concern and Life Satisfaction
Previous research has shown that empathic concern has positive implications for psychological well-being. The purpose of this research is to examine how masculine God imagery moderates this association. Using data from a nationwide sample of adults in South Korea ( n = 1,498), the analyses reveal that empathic concern is positively associated with both life satisfaction and happiness net of religious and demographic controls. Importantly, masculi…
Social Support in the Workplace, Praying for Others, and Job Satisfaction
This research note aims to examine how social support in the workplace is associated with job satisfaction in Singapore. More importantly, it evaluates how the frequency of praying for others moderates this association. Using data from the Work, Religion, and Health survey ( n = 508), a nationwide study of workers in Singapore collected in 2021, our regression analyses show that receiving social support in the workplace is positively associated w…
Creative Work, Divine Struggles, and Self-Esteem: Evidence from Singapore
Conceptualizing creative work as a job resource in the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, this study examines how creative work is associated with self-esteem. In addition, it assesses how divine struggles not only shape self-esteem, but also the association between creative work and self-esteem. Using data from a nationwide study of Singaporean workers in 2021 ( n = 467), our analyses show that creative work is positively associated with self-e…
Belief in Divine Support and Sense of Mattering: The Image of God as a Moderator
The purpose of this study is to examine how belief in divine support is associated with sense of mattering, and how this association is contingent upon various images of God including authoritative, benevolent, critical, and distant God. Employing OLS regression analyses with data from the 2017 Baylor Religion Survey ( n = 1,375), this study demonstrates that belief in divine support is positively associated with sense of mattering. Yet, a distan…
Negative ties, social support buffering, and loneliness: Findings from a cross-national survey
This study examines the independent and interactive effects of perceived social support (positive ties) and relational stress (negative ties) on loneliness in later life. To that end, we differentiate the sources of social support, tap multiple items to measure relational stress, and analyze a large cross-national dataset containing probability samples of older adults across 28 countries ( N = 12,449). Our analysis demonstrates that the relations…
Effects of prayer frequency and orientations on distress and well-being: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from Indonesian adults
Do Divine Struggles Moderate the Association Between Interpersonal Conflict at Work and Worker Well-Being in Singapore
Does Religion Mitigate the Effect of Neighborhood Disorder on Cognitive Decline: Evidence From a National Longitudinal Study of U.S. Older Adults
This study underscores the protective role of religious belief against cognitive aging in the face of neighborhood disorder, suggesting that personal faith may provide a cognitive reserve or coping mechanism. Our findings also imply that the absence of religious belief, combined with high perceived neighborhood disorder, may produce a compounded negative impact on cognitive aging
Does Belief in Supernatural Agents Moderate the Association Between Interpersonal Conflict at Work and Worker Well-Being
This study examines how interpersonal conflict at work is associated with worker well-being in Singapore. More importantly, it assesses how this association is contingent upon belief in angelic intervention and belief in supernatural evil. Using data from the 2021 Work, Religion, and Health Survey (N = 508), the analyses show that interpersonal conflict at work is positively associated with anxiety and job burnout. In addition, belief in angelic …
Political Trust, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Cross-National Study
Objectives: We investigate whether older adults who place greater trust in their political leadership fare better in terms of mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also test if and how the trust-wellbeing relationship varies across individual- and country-level moderators. Methods: Based on cross-national data consisting of over 13,000 older adults in 66 countries, we estimate a series of multilevel models. Results: Within countries, …
Childhood Adversity and Passive Suicidal Ideation in Later Life in the United States: Does Religious Attendance Matter
Childhood emotional abuse and adult mental health at the intersection of social relationship and education
BACKGROUND: Previous research has established that childhood emotional abuse has long-term, negative consequences for adult mental health. Yet, less is known about the ways that social relationship and education intersect to shape the link between childhood emotional abuse and mental health in adulthood. AIM: The current study aims to examine whether perceived quality of social relationships moderates the association between childhood emotional a…
Discovering Grace at the Table? Prayers at Mealtime, Marital Status, and Life Satisfaction in Later Life
This study examines the effects of prayers at mealtime on change in life satisfaction among older U.S. adults. In addition, it assesses the ways that marital status conditions these psychological effects of prayers at mealtime. Using two waves of longitudinal data from the Religion, Aging, and Health Survey (2001–2004), a representative sampling of adults aged 65 and older, the analyses reveal that the frequency of prayers at mealtime is associat…
The pain and gain of religious/spiritual struggles: A longitudinal study of South African adults
We used two waves of longitudinal data from a sample of South Africans (n = 274) to examine whether religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles following an interpersonal transgression might lead to both pain (i.e., depression) and gain (i.e., perceived posttraumatic growth) six months later. We also explored the role of positive R/S coping in modifying each of these associations. After adjusting for a variety of covariates and prior values of the respec…
Examining the Complex (Curvilinear and Contingent) Associations between Social Distancing Compliance and Subjective Health during a Global Health Crisis
This study sheds new light on the health implications of social distancing during the pandemic. Our findings dovetail with the steeling hypothesis, i.e., that social distancing is less harmful for U.S. older adults exposed to prior stressful or vulnerable conditions
Financial Hardship, Religious Experience, and Health
Background Previous research has shown that religion mitigates the deleterious association between financial hardship and health. Although religion is a multidimensional construct, this strand of research has primarily focused on religious behavior or belief. Purpose The current study aims to extend previous findings by examining a neglected aspect of religious involvement-religious experience-and how it buffers the association between financial …
Religious Attendance and Health Behavior in Cross-National Perspective: The Role of Religious Context
Background A substantial body of evidence shows that individuals with higher levels of religious attendance are more likely to avoid risky health behaviors and adopt beneficial health behaviors. Yet, less is known about the extent to which these patterns vary across national context. Purpose The current study aims to examine how religious attendance is associated with health behavior cross-nationally. More importantly, it assesses the ways that c…
Ageism, Religiosity, and Wellbeing Among Older Adults: Evidence From the European Social Survey (ESS4)
Research shows that ageism (systemic discrimination against people because of their age) significantly undermines physical and psychological wellbeing, particularly among older adults. Our aim is to contribute to the literature by investigating whether this negative association varies across national religious context. We estimate multilevel models by drawing on a subset of data (ages 55 and above) from the fourth round of the European Social Sur…
Perceived Distributive Unfairness and Mental Health: The Gender-contingent Buffering Effects of Religion
Prior research has established that perceived distributive unfairness is associated with poor mental health. The purpose of this study is to examine whether religion moderates this association and whether gender conditions the moderating effects of religion. Using data from the 2012 Korean General Social Survey ( N = 1,375), the current analyses show that perceived distributive unfairness is positively associated with depression. However, each of…
Does religious bonding moderate the association between divine struggles and depressive symptoms among married adults
Belief in Hell and Parenting Priorities Concerning Child Independence and Obedience: Does Economic Context Matter
This study examines the ways that belief in hell is associated with parental goals concerning child independence and obedience. Further, it assesses how this association is contingent upon economic circumstances of a nation, reflected by a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. Multilevel analyses with data from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010-2014) show that belief in hell is associated with a greater likelihood of op…
Practical Divine Influence: Socioeconomic Status and Belief in the Prosperity Gospel
The 'prosperity gospel' is an understudied feature of the religious landscape of the United States. Little is known about the social patterning of prosperity gospel beliefs. We focus on two core dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES)-education and income-as potential influences. Our analyses of data from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's 2006 Survey of Pentecostals produce three findings. First, education and income have negative and mo…
Role of Perceived Maternal Favoritism and Disfavoritism in Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
The findings shed new light on the role of intergenerational relations in adult children's well-being in midlife by taking into consideration the respondents' direct reports of their perceptions of their mothers' favoritism and disfavoritism. Further, the findings provide evidence that the association between maternal differentiation and psychological well-being in adulthood is stronger in Black than in White families. These patterns suggest that…
Religious Attendance, Stress, and Happiness in South Korea: Do Gender and Religious Affiliation Matter
Sense of Divine Involvement and Sense of Meaning in Life: Religious Tradition as a Contingency
This study examines the association between sense of divine involvement and sense of meaning in life. Then it proceeds to assess how this association varies by religious tradition. Using a random and national sample from the 2007 Baylor Religion Survey, this study finds that sense of divine involvement is associated with greater odds of having a sense of meaning in life. In addition, religious affiliation modifies this association. Specifically, …
Islamophobia? Religion, Contact with Muslims, and the Respect for Islam
In the midst of growing reservations about Muslims in America, this study seeks to explore the factors accounting for Islamophobia by utilizing nationally representative data. The findings suggest that religious affiliations have differential effects on the degree to which one respects Islam, with Christians more likely to have low regard for Islam. The image of a God who punishes his followers for their sins has a positive association with the o…
Sacred Canopies or Religious Markets? The Effect of County-Level Religious Diversity on Later Changes in Religious Involvement
Secularization theories, such as Berger's Sacred Canopy argument, hold that religious diversity leads to a decline in religious participation. Religious market models (e.g., Finke and Stark) argue the opposite. Voas, Olson, and Crockett found that nearly all of the vast research exploring this important question prior to 2002 was flawed due to a previously unrecognized noncausal statistical relationship between measures of religious diversity and…
Belief in Supernatural Evil and Mental Health: Do Secure Attachment to God and Gender Matter
This study examines whether belief in supernatural evil is associated with mental health. In addition, it assesses how secure attachment to God moderates this association and how gender conditions the moderating effect of secure attachment to God. Among a variety of mental health outcomes, this study focuses on general mental health problems as well as anxiety-related disorders (e.g., general anxiety, social anxiety, and paranoia). Using data fro…
A Cross-national Analysis of Religion and Attitudes toward Premarital Sex: Do Economic Contexts Matter
This study examines how micro-level religious effects and macro-level economic contexts shape individuals' attitudes toward premarital sex. It then investigates whether the effects of individual-level religiosity on approval of premarital sex are contingent on the economic characteristics of a nation, reflected by a country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Multilevel analyses of data from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010-…
Where Does Religion Matter Most? Personal Religiosity and the Acceptability of Wife-beating in Cross-National Perspective
Does religion justify violent acts against wives, or does it reduce approval of this type of intimate partner violence? We examine whether personal religiosity raises or lowers the acceptability of wife-beating. In addition, we investigate how the relationship between personal religiosity and attitudes toward wife-beating differs depending on the overall normative context of the country where a person lives. Using multilevel modeling with data fr…
Negative ties, social support buffering, and loneliness: Findings from a cross-national survey
This study examines the independent and interactive effects of perceived social support (positive ties) and relational stress (negative ties) on loneliness in later life. To that end, we differentiate the sources of social support, tap multiple items to measure relational stress, and analyze a large cross-national dataset containing probability samples of older adults across 28 countries ( N = 12,449). Our analysis demonstrates that the relations…
Financial Hardship, Religious Experience, and Health
Background Previous research has shown that religion mitigates the deleterious association between financial hardship and health. Although religion is a multidimensional construct, this strand of research has primarily focused on religious behavior or belief. Purpose The current study aims to extend previous findings by examining a neglected aspect of religious involvement-religious experience-and how it buffers the association between financial …
Religious Attendance and Health Behavior in Cross-National Perspective: The Role of Religious Context
Background A substantial body of evidence shows that individuals with higher levels of religious attendance are more likely to avoid risky health behaviors and adopt beneficial health behaviors. Yet, less is known about the extent to which these patterns vary across national context. Purpose The current study aims to examine how religious attendance is associated with health behavior cross-nationally. More importantly, it assesses the ways that c…
Belief in Hell and Parenting Priorities Concerning Child Independence and Obedience: Does Economic Context Matter
This study examines the ways that belief in hell is associated with parental goals concerning child independence and obedience. Further, it assesses how this association is contingent upon economic circumstances of a nation, reflected by a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. Multilevel analyses with data from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010-2014) show that belief in hell is associated with a greater likelihood of op…
Spousal Religiosity is Positively Associated with the Partner's Meaning in Life
Past research has established that personal religiosity is positively associated with a sense of meaning in life. However, it has largely overlooked how religious others influence one's own life meaning. Given that a marital partner may be the most influential other in a person's everyday life, this study aims to examine how the religiosity of one's spouse is associated with the sense of meaning in life of the self, regardless of the religiosity …
Explaining the cross-national variation in the relationship between religious organization membership and civic organization participation
Religion and the Sense of Control in Cross-National Perspective: The Importance of Religious Context
Is individual religiosity associated with the sense of control? If so, does a nation’s religious context modify that association? Multilevel analyses with data from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010–2014) demonstrate that religious attendance and prayer are positively associated with the sense of control, net of individual- and country-level controls. However, belief in God is not associated with the sense of control. Furthermore, c…
Islamophobia? Religion, Contact with Muslims, and the Respect for Islam
In the midst of growing reservations about Muslims in America, this study seeks to explore the factors accounting for Islamophobia by utilizing nationally representative data. The findings suggest that religious affiliations have differential effects on the degree to which one respects Islam, with Christians more likely to have low regard for Islam. The image of a God who punishes his followers for their sins has a positive association with the o…
Practical Divine Influence: Socioeconomic Status and Belief in the Prosperity Gospel
The 'prosperity gospel' is an understudied feature of the religious landscape of the United States. Little is known about the social patterning of prosperity gospel beliefs. We focus on two core dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES)-education and income-as potential influences. Our analyses of data from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's 2006 Survey of Pentecostals produce three findings. First, education and income have negative and mo…
Religion, Stress, and Suicide Acceptability in South Korea
Using the 2009 Korean General Social Survey (N = 1,422), we examine (1) if religious variables affect suicide acceptability—attitudes and norms regarding the acceptability of suicide; and (2) whether religious variables dampen the otherwise strong effects of stress on suicide acceptability. We find that Protestantism, religious attendance, and religious salience are associated with lower levels of suicide acceptability. Yet, the negative impact o…
Religious Attendance, Stress, and Happiness in South Korea: Do Gender and Religious Affiliation Matter
Role of Perceived Maternal Favoritism and Disfavoritism in Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
The findings shed new light on the role of intergenerational relations in adult children's well-being in midlife by taking into consideration the respondents' direct reports of their perceptions of their mothers' favoritism and disfavoritism. Further, the findings provide evidence that the association between maternal differentiation and psychological well-being in adulthood is stronger in Black than in White families. These patterns suggest that…
Sense of Divine Involvement and Sense of Meaning in Life: Religious Tradition as a Contingency
This study examines the association between sense of divine involvement and sense of meaning in life. Then it proceeds to assess how this association varies by religious tradition. Using a random and national sample from the 2007 Baylor Religion Survey, this study finds that sense of divine involvement is associated with greater odds of having a sense of meaning in life. In addition, religious affiliation modifies this association. Specifically, …
Socioeconomic Status and Religious Beliefs among U.S. Latinos: Evidence from the 2006 Hispanic Religion Survey
This study examines how socioeconomic status is related to beliefs about the prosperity gospel and miracles among U.S. Latinos. Further, it investigates how religious involvement moderates this relationship. In analyses of data from the 2006 Hispanic Religion Survey (N = 3143), we find that higher levels of education and income are independently associated with lower likelihood of endorsing the prosperity gospel. However, the negative association…
A Cross-national Analysis of Religion and Attitudes toward Premarital Sex: Do Economic Contexts Matter
This study examines how micro-level religious effects and macro-level economic contexts shape individuals' attitudes toward premarital sex. It then investigates whether the effects of individual-level religiosity on approval of premarital sex are contingent on the economic characteristics of a nation, reflected by a country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Multilevel analyses of data from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010-…
Religion and the Sense of Control in Cross-National Perspective: The Importance of Religious Context
Is individual religiosity associated with the sense of control? If so, does a nation’s religious context modify that association? Multilevel analyses with data from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010–2014) demonstrate that religious attendance and prayer are positively associated with the sense of control, net of individual- and country-level controls. However, belief in God is not associated with the sense of control. Furthermore, c…
Where Does Religion Matter Most? Personal Religiosity and the Acceptability of Wife-beating in Cross-National Perspective
Does religion justify violent acts against wives, or does it reduce approval of this type of intimate partner violence? We examine whether personal religiosity raises or lowers the acceptability of wife-beating. In addition, we investigate how the relationship between personal religiosity and attitudes toward wife-beating differs depending on the overall normative context of the country where a person lives. Using multilevel modeling with data fr…
Country-level Differences in the Effects of Financial Hardship on Life Satisfaction: The Role of Religious Context and Age-contingent Buffering
Existing research suggests that financial hardship is negatively associated with life satisfaction. Largely absent from the literature, however, is an examination of whether this association varies across national context. Drawing on the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010–2014), this study assesses whether religious context moderates the association between financial hardship and life satisfaction. Moreover, it investigates how the moder…
Practical Divine Influence: Socioeconomic Status and Belief in the Prosperity Gospel
Beliefs about God’s causal influence in everyday life are among the most compelling features of the American religious landscape. One reason why belief in divine agency remains prominent is due to its practical implications. The prosperity gospel embodies a specific form of the more generalized belief in divine influence that explicitly identifies God’s causal agency in two highly personal domains of peoples’ lives. The prosperity gospel aligns w…
Explaining the cross-national variation in the relationship between religious organization membership and civic organization participation
Faithful Measures: New Methods in the Measurement of Religion
Does religious bonding moderate the association between divine struggles and depressive symptoms among married adults
Belief in Hell and Parenting Priorities Concerning Child Independence and Obedience: Does Economic Context Matter
This study examines the ways that belief in hell is associated with parental goals concerning child independence and obedience. Further, it assesses how this association is contingent upon economic circumstances of a nation, reflected by a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. Multilevel analyses with data from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010-2014) show that belief in hell is associated with a greater likelihood of op…
Spousal Religiosity is Positively Associated with the Partner's Meaning in Life
Past research has established that personal religiosity is positively associated with a sense of meaning in life. However, it has largely overlooked how religious others influence one's own life meaning. Given that a marital partner may be the most influential other in a person's everyday life, this study aims to examine how the religiosity of one's spouse is associated with the sense of meaning in life of the self, regardless of the religiosity …
Sacred Canopies or Religious Markets? The Effect of County-Level Religious Diversity on Later Changes in Religious Involvement
Secularization theories, such as Berger's Sacred Canopy argument, hold that religious diversity leads to a decline in religious participation. Religious market models (e.g., Finke and Stark) argue the opposite. Voas, Olson, and Crockett found that nearly all of the vast research exploring this important question prior to 2002 was flawed due to a previously unrecognized noncausal statistical relationship between measures of religious diversity and…
Belief in Supernatural Evil and Mental Health: Do Secure Attachment to God and Gender Matter
This study examines whether belief in supernatural evil is associated with mental health. In addition, it assesses how secure attachment to God moderates this association and how gender conditions the moderating effect of secure attachment to God. Among a variety of mental health outcomes, this study focuses on general mental health problems as well as anxiety-related disorders (e.g., general anxiety, social anxiety, and paranoia). Using data fro…
Ageism, Religiosity, and Wellbeing Among Older Adults: Evidence From the European Social Survey (ESS4)
Research shows that ageism (systemic discrimination against people because of their age) significantly undermines physical and psychological wellbeing, particularly among older adults. Our aim is to contribute to the literature by investigating whether this negative association varies across national religious context. We estimate multilevel models by drawing on a subset of data (ages 55 and above) from the fourth round of the European Social Sur…
Perceived Distributive Unfairness and Mental Health: The Gender-contingent Buffering Effects of Religion
Prior research has established that perceived distributive unfairness is associated with poor mental health. The purpose of this study is to examine whether religion moderates this association and whether gender conditions the moderating effects of religion. Using data from the 2012 Korean General Social Survey ( N = 1,375), the current analyses show that perceived distributive unfairness is positively associated with depression. However, each of…
Discovering Grace at the Table? Prayers at Mealtime, Marital Status, and Life Satisfaction in Later Life
This study examines the effects of prayers at mealtime on change in life satisfaction among older U.S. adults. In addition, it assesses the ways that marital status conditions these psychological effects of prayers at mealtime. Using two waves of longitudinal data from the Religion, Aging, and Health Survey (2001–2004), a representative sampling of adults aged 65 and older, the analyses reveal that the frequency of prayers at mealtime is associat…
The pain and gain of religious/spiritual struggles: A longitudinal study of South African adults
We used two waves of longitudinal data from a sample of South Africans (n = 274) to examine whether religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles following an interpersonal transgression might lead to both pain (i.e., depression) and gain (i.e., perceived posttraumatic growth) six months later. We also explored the role of positive R/S coping in modifying each of these associations. After adjusting for a variety of covariates and prior values of the respec…
Examining the Complex (Curvilinear and Contingent) Associations between Social Distancing Compliance and Subjective Health during a Global Health Crisis
This study sheds new light on the health implications of social distancing during the pandemic. Our findings dovetail with the steeling hypothesis, i.e., that social distancing is less harmful for U.S. older adults exposed to prior stressful or vulnerable conditions
Financial Hardship, Religious Experience, and Health
Background Previous research has shown that religion mitigates the deleterious association between financial hardship and health. Although religion is a multidimensional construct, this strand of research has primarily focused on religious behavior or belief. Purpose The current study aims to extend previous findings by examining a neglected aspect of religious involvement-religious experience-and how it buffers the association between financial …
Psychology (37 works) · Social Psychology (32 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (28 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (17 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (13 works) · Religiosity (13 works)