Dong Pil Yoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 221025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dong Pil Yoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dong Pil |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoon |
| SIGNATURE | YOON D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes
Forgiveness is a foundational tenet across all religions that has consistently been shown to be related to positive health outcomes. Although specific theoretical dimensions of “forgiveness” have been proposed (e.g., decisional, emotional, dispositional), there is limited evidence to suggest that they are statistically distinct constructs. However, a recent factor analysis (Yoon et al., 2022) indicated that a frequently used measure of forgivenes…
Relationships between psychometrically distinct Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) factors and mental health among U.S. college students
The current study tested the extent to which demographic, personality, spiritual, and religious variables accounted for variance in physical and mental health measures using recently identified psychometrically distinct factors of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality. Based on a non-clinical sample of 249 U.S. undergraduate students, hierarchical multiple regressions were significant for mental, but not physical, healt…
Examining Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Differences with the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness and Spirituality in the U.S. and India
Conceptualising spirituality and religion as psychological processes
This study validated previous principal component analyses of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) that have been conducted with persons with diverse medical conditions and traumatic brain injuries from diverse cultures (India, US), ethnicities (African American, Caucasian, South Asian), and religions (Christian, Hindu, Muslim). Participants included 398 healthy undergraduate students who completed the BMMRS on…
The right parietal lobe, sense of self, and empathy
This study extends previous research where empathy associated with increased right parietal lobe (RPL) “self-orientation” and left hemisphere (LH) “other-orientation” by investigating different cultural (India, US), ethnic (African American, Caucasian, South Asian), and religious (Christian, Hindu, Muslim) groupings. Participants included 108 individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and explored correlations between empathy and neuropsycholo…
Affect as a foundational psychological process for spirituality and empathy
There is growing interest in understanding the manner by which spiritual experiences, religious beliefs and behaviours, and prosocial traits (e.g., empathy, altruism) are related. Research has recently focused on determining those psychological constructs (e.g., affective, behavioural, cognitive) that are common to these related constructs, although the specific relationships remain unclear. The current study evaluated relationships among spiritu…
Selflessness as a universal neuropsychological foundation of spiritual transcendence
Research with US and European Christians has shown that increased spiritual transcendence is related to decreased right hemisphere/right parietal lobe (RH/RPL) functioning, which has been inferred as relating to increased “selflessness”. To determine if RH/RPL selflessness is a universal neuropsychological foundation for spiritual transcendence across cultures and religions, this study evaluated 109 individuals with traumatic brain injury from th…
Relationships Between Negative Spiritual Beliefs and Health Outcomes for Individuals With Heterogeneous Medical Conditions
This study determined the degree to which any negative spiritual beliefs, regardless of one’s positive spiritual beliefs, are associated with health outcomes. Participants included 199 individuals with heterogeneous health conditions (i.e., traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, cancer, primary care disorders, healthy). Two groups were identified: a negative spirituality group (n = 61), that self-endorsed any degree of negative spiri…
Factor Structure of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality in US and Indian Samples with Traumatic Brain Injury
Neuropsychological correlates of forgiveness
A recent study of individuals with traumatic brain injury suggests that forgiveness is a neurologically based function related to decreased self-orientation associated with decreased right parietal lobe (RPL) functioning. The current study attempted to replicate these results using 23 individuals with diagnosed seizure disorders. Neuropsychological tests of bilateral frontal, temporal, and parietal lobe functioning were used as indices of cerebra…
General Well-Being of Korean Immigrant Elders
This study examined how religiousness/spirituality (values/beliefs, private religious practice, religious/spiritual coping, and religious support) and social support are related to the general well-being (positive well-being, general health, vitality, self-control, anxiety, and depression) of 177 Korean immigrant elders (KIEs). Regression analysis revealed a significant association between religious/spiritual coping, religious support, and social…
Convergent/Divergent Validity of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality
Relationships Among Spirituality, Religious Practices, Personality Factors, and Health for Five Different Faith Traditions
A Comparison of Sanctions in African American and White Tanf Leavers
In this study the authors explore racial disparities in the uses of sanctions and the different impact of sanctions on the economic well-being of African American and White TANF leavers. The study analyzed 907 African American and 1,336 White welfare leavers from the 1999 and 2002 data of the NSAF. Chi-square results show that sanctions are more significantly imposed to African Americans than Whites. On the other hand, regression results show tha…
Factors Influencing the General Well-Being of Low-Income Korean Immigrant Elders
This study explores factors that influence the general well-being (anxiety, depression, positive well-being, self-control, vitality, and general health) of low-income Korean immigrant elders by interviewing 206 older adults living in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California. Ordinary least squares regression results reveal that lack of English proficiency and longer residence in the United States were significant predictors of higher anxi…
Re-conceptualizing the Factor Structure of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality
Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Workers in Public and Performance-Based Contracting Environments
An increasing number of state governments offer performance-based contracts to private agencies for the delivery of child welfare services; however, little is known about how this system impacts child welfare workers. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to gain a better understanding of frontline workers' employment satisfaction in a state that utilized both public and performance-based systems of care. Qualitative findings revealed that …
Differentiating the Impact of Spiritual Experiences, Religious Practices, and Congregational Support on the Mental Health of Individuals With Heterogeneous Medical Disorders
This study evaluated the relationships that exist between the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) and the mental health of individuals with heterogeneous medical disorders. The participants were 168 individuals with heterogeneous medical disorders (i.e., 61 brain injury, 32 stroke, 25 spinal cord injury, 25 cancer, 25 primary care). The measures were BMMRS subscales (conceptualized as spiritual experiences, religi…
Determinants of Unemployment and Economic Hardship of Welfare Leavers Who Have Reached Their Lifetime Limits
A cross-sectional survey design is used to explore the determinants of unemployment and economic hardship among former welfare recipients who have reached their 5-year lifetime limits in a sample of 276 former WV WORKS recipients in West Virginia. The findings of the study indicate that respondents with mental problems; physical disabilities; or without a high school diploma, child care, or transportation were more likely than others to be unempl…
Factors Affecting Subjective Weil-Being for Rural Elderly Individuals
A cross-sectional survey design was used to examine the relationships between spirituality, religiousness, social support, and the subjective well-being in a sample of 215 elderly individuals in the rural counties of West Virginia and North Carolina. The Brief Multidimensional Measures of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) was used to measure various domains of religiousness/spirituality, including daily spiritual experiences, values/beliefs, for…
Intercountry Adoption
While the past several decades have witnessed an increase in the amount of research examining the ethnic identity and mental health of intercountry adoptees, this literature is still insufficient to guide the conceptualization and development of sense of ethnic pride to improve general well-being of intercountry adoptees. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses of 241 Korean-born adolescent adoptees provide findings that a more positive parent-…
Religiousness/Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being Among Rural Elderly Whites, African Americans, and Native Americans
Little attention has been paid to subjective well-being among non-White elderly in rural areas where medical resources and financial support are deficient. The present study assessed a rural community sample of 215 elderly comprising 85 Caucasians, 75 African Americans, and 55 Native Americans, to examine roles of spirituality/religiousness on their subjective well-being. This study found ethnic differences in the reliance on religiosity/spiritua…
Causal Modeling Predicting Psychological Adjustment of Korean-Born Adolescent Adoptees
Self-concept theory and ethnic identity theory imply causal relations among positive parent-child relationship, ethnic pride, and psychological adjustment of children who were intercountry adopted. This study used linear measurement and structural equation models to test the plausibility of the causal model dealing with the relations among indexes of parent's support of ethnic background, positive parent-child relationship, collective self-esteem…
Causal Modeling Predicting Psychological Adjustment of Korean-Born Adolescent Adoptees
Self-concept theory and ethnic identity theory imply causal relations among positive parent-child relationship, ethnic pride, and psychological adjustment of children who were intercountry adopted. This study used linear measurement and structural equation models to test the plausibility of the causal model dealing with the relations among indexes of parent's support of ethnic background, positive parent-child relationship, collective self-esteem…
Intercountry Adoption
While the past several decades have witnessed an increase in the amount of research examining the ethnic identity and mental health of intercountry adoptees, this literature is still insufficient to guide the conceptualization and development of sense of ethnic pride to improve general well-being of intercountry adoptees. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses of 241 Korean-born adolescent adoptees provide findings that a more positive parent-…
Factors Influencing the General Well-Being of Low-Income Korean Immigrant Elders
This study explores factors that influence the general well-being (anxiety, depression, positive well-being, self-control, vitality, and general health) of low-income Korean immigrant elders by interviewing 206 older adults living in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California. Ordinary least squares regression results reveal that lack of English proficiency and longer residence in the United States were significant predictors of higher anxi…
Religiousness/Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being Among Rural Elderly Whites, African Americans, and Native Americans
Little attention has been paid to subjective well-being among non-White elderly in rural areas where medical resources and financial support are deficient. The present study assessed a rural community sample of 215 elderly comprising 85 Caucasians, 75 African Americans, and 55 Native Americans, to examine roles of spirituality/religiousness on their subjective well-being. This study found ethnic differences in the reliance on religiosity/spiritua…
General Well-Being of Korean Immigrant Elders
This study examined how religiousness/spirituality (values/beliefs, private religious practice, religious/spiritual coping, and religious support) and social support are related to the general well-being (positive well-being, general health, vitality, self-control, anxiety, and depression) of 177 Korean immigrant elders (KIEs). Regression analysis revealed a significant association between religious/spiritual coping, religious support, and social…
A Comparison of Sanctions in African American and White Tanf Leavers
In this study the authors explore racial disparities in the uses of sanctions and the different impact of sanctions on the economic well-being of African American and White TANF leavers. The study analyzed 907 African American and 1,336 White welfare leavers from the 1999 and 2002 data of the NSAF. Chi-square results show that sanctions are more significantly imposed to African Americans than Whites. On the other hand, regression results show tha…
Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Workers in Public and Performance-Based Contracting Environments
An increasing number of state governments offer performance-based contracts to private agencies for the delivery of child welfare services; however, little is known about how this system impacts child welfare workers. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to gain a better understanding of frontline workers' employment satisfaction in a state that utilized both public and performance-based systems of care. Qualitative findings revealed that …
Differentiating the Impact of Spiritual Experiences, Religious Practices, and Congregational Support on the Mental Health of Individuals With Heterogeneous Medical Disorders
This study evaluated the relationships that exist between the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) and the mental health of individuals with heterogeneous medical disorders. The participants were 168 individuals with heterogeneous medical disorders (i.e., 61 brain injury, 32 stroke, 25 spinal cord injury, 25 cancer, 25 primary care). The measures were BMMRS subscales (conceptualized as spiritual experiences, religi…
Causal Modeling Predicting Psychological Adjustment of Korean-Born Adolescent Adoptees
Self-concept theory and ethnic identity theory imply causal relations among positive parent-child relationship, ethnic pride, and psychological adjustment of children who were intercountry adopted. This study used linear measurement and structural equation models to test the plausibility of the causal model dealing with the relations among indexes of parent's support of ethnic background, positive parent-child relationship, collective self-esteem…
Intercountry Adoption
While the past several decades have witnessed an increase in the amount of research examining the ethnic identity and mental health of intercountry adoptees, this literature is still insufficient to guide the conceptualization and development of sense of ethnic pride to improve general well-being of intercountry adoptees. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses of 241 Korean-born adolescent adoptees provide findings that a more positive parent-…
Religiousness/Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being Among Rural Elderly Whites, African Americans, and Native Americans
Little attention has been paid to subjective well-being among non-White elderly in rural areas where medical resources and financial support are deficient. The present study assessed a rural community sample of 215 elderly comprising 85 Caucasians, 75 African Americans, and 55 Native Americans, to examine roles of spirituality/religiousness on their subjective well-being. This study found ethnic differences in the reliance on religiosity/spiritua…
Factors Affecting Subjective Weil-Being for Rural Elderly Individuals
A cross-sectional survey design was used to examine the relationships between spirituality, religiousness, social support, and the subjective well-being in a sample of 215 elderly individuals in the rural counties of West Virginia and North Carolina. The Brief Multidimensional Measures of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) was used to measure various domains of religiousness/spirituality, including daily spiritual experiences, values/beliefs, for…
Re-conceptualizing the Factor Structure of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality
Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Workers in Public and Performance-Based Contracting Environments
An increasing number of state governments offer performance-based contracts to private agencies for the delivery of child welfare services; however, little is known about how this system impacts child welfare workers. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to gain a better understanding of frontline workers' employment satisfaction in a state that utilized both public and performance-based systems of care. Qualitative findings revealed that …
Differentiating the Impact of Spiritual Experiences, Religious Practices, and Congregational Support on the Mental Health of Individuals With Heterogeneous Medical Disorders
This study evaluated the relationships that exist between the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) and the mental health of individuals with heterogeneous medical disorders. The participants were 168 individuals with heterogeneous medical disorders (i.e., 61 brain injury, 32 stroke, 25 spinal cord injury, 25 cancer, 25 primary care). The measures were BMMRS subscales (conceptualized as spiritual experiences, religi…
Determinants of Unemployment and Economic Hardship of Welfare Leavers Who Have Reached Their Lifetime Limits
A cross-sectional survey design is used to explore the determinants of unemployment and economic hardship among former welfare recipients who have reached their 5-year lifetime limits in a sample of 276 former WV WORKS recipients in West Virginia. The findings of the study indicate that respondents with mental problems; physical disabilities; or without a high school diploma, child care, or transportation were more likely than others to be unempl…
Factors Influencing the General Well-Being of Low-Income Korean Immigrant Elders
This study explores factors that influence the general well-being (anxiety, depression, positive well-being, self-control, vitality, and general health) of low-income Korean immigrant elders by interviewing 206 older adults living in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California. Ordinary least squares regression results reveal that lack of English proficiency and longer residence in the United States were significant predictors of higher anxi…
Convergent/Divergent Validity of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality
Relationships Among Spirituality, Religious Practices, Personality Factors, and Health for Five Different Faith Traditions
A Comparison of Sanctions in African American and White Tanf Leavers
In this study the authors explore racial disparities in the uses of sanctions and the different impact of sanctions on the economic well-being of African American and White TANF leavers. The study analyzed 907 African American and 1,336 White welfare leavers from the 1999 and 2002 data of the NSAF. Chi-square results show that sanctions are more significantly imposed to African Americans than Whites. On the other hand, regression results show tha…
General Well-Being of Korean Immigrant Elders
This study examined how religiousness/spirituality (values/beliefs, private religious practice, religious/spiritual coping, and religious support) and social support are related to the general well-being (positive well-being, general health, vitality, self-control, anxiety, and depression) of 177 Korean immigrant elders (KIEs). Regression analysis revealed a significant association between religious/spiritual coping, religious support, and social…
Relationships Between Negative Spiritual Beliefs and Health Outcomes for Individuals With Heterogeneous Medical Conditions
This study determined the degree to which any negative spiritual beliefs, regardless of one’s positive spiritual beliefs, are associated with health outcomes. Participants included 199 individuals with heterogeneous health conditions (i.e., traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, cancer, primary care disorders, healthy). Two groups were identified: a negative spirituality group (n = 61), that self-endorsed any degree of negative spiri…
Factor Structure of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality in US and Indian Samples with Traumatic Brain Injury
Neuropsychological correlates of forgiveness
A recent study of individuals with traumatic brain injury suggests that forgiveness is a neurologically based function related to decreased self-orientation associated with decreased right parietal lobe (RPL) functioning. The current study attempted to replicate these results using 23 individuals with diagnosed seizure disorders. Neuropsychological tests of bilateral frontal, temporal, and parietal lobe functioning were used as indices of cerebra…
Selflessness as a universal neuropsychological foundation of spiritual transcendence
Research with US and European Christians has shown that increased spiritual transcendence is related to decreased right hemisphere/right parietal lobe (RH/RPL) functioning, which has been inferred as relating to increased “selflessness”. To determine if RH/RPL selflessness is a universal neuropsychological foundation for spiritual transcendence across cultures and religions, this study evaluated 109 individuals with traumatic brain injury from th…
Affect as a foundational psychological process for spirituality and empathy
There is growing interest in understanding the manner by which spiritual experiences, religious beliefs and behaviours, and prosocial traits (e.g., empathy, altruism) are related. Research has recently focused on determining those psychological constructs (e.g., affective, behavioural, cognitive) that are common to these related constructs, although the specific relationships remain unclear. The current study evaluated relationships among spiritu…
The right parietal lobe, sense of self, and empathy
This study extends previous research where empathy associated with increased right parietal lobe (RPL) “self-orientation” and left hemisphere (LH) “other-orientation” by investigating different cultural (India, US), ethnic (African American, Caucasian, South Asian), and religious (Christian, Hindu, Muslim) groupings. Participants included 108 individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and explored correlations between empathy and neuropsycholo…
Relationships between psychometrically distinct Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) factors and mental health among U.S. college students
The current study tested the extent to which demographic, personality, spiritual, and religious variables accounted for variance in physical and mental health measures using recently identified psychometrically distinct factors of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality. Based on a non-clinical sample of 249 U.S. undergraduate students, hierarchical multiple regressions were significant for mental, but not physical, healt…
Examining Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Differences with the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness and Spirituality in the U.S. and India
Conceptualising spirituality and religion as psychological processes
This study validated previous principal component analyses of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) that have been conducted with persons with diverse medical conditions and traumatic brain injuries from diverse cultures (India, US), ethnicities (African American, Caucasian, South Asian), and religions (Christian, Hindu, Muslim). Participants included 398 healthy undergraduate students who completed the BMMRS on…
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes
Forgiveness is a foundational tenet across all religions that has consistently been shown to be related to positive health outcomes. Although specific theoretical dimensions of “forgiveness” have been proposed (e.g., decisional, emotional, dispositional), there is limited evidence to suggest that they are statistically distinct constructs. However, a recent factor analysis (Yoon et al., 2022) indicated that a frequently used measure of forgivenes…
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (15 works) · Spirituality (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works)