Mansoo Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mansoo Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mansoo |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3055-6291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Flourishing, Mental Health, and School Engagement Among U.S. Children
Comparing the Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Adolescent Outcomes in Schools Between the U.S. and East Asian Studies
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) can be a culturally adaptive school-based intervention for youth. Despite the evidence that supports the practical use of SFBT with various populations, its effectiveness particularly among East Asian American (EAA) youth outcomes in school settings requires further study. For this systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched U.S. and East Asian studies (e.g., Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) published from…
Housing Hardships and Health Risks Among Children and Youth
Housing and neighbourhood contexts are critical social determinants of health for children and youth. However, little is known about how co‐occurring socioecological factors, including household, housing and neighbourhood contexts, cumulatively influence child and youth health risks. The aims of this study were to examine the combined effects of household‐, housing‐ and neighbourhood‐based risk and protective factors on child and youth health ris…
Characteristics that Predict Submission to Social Work Versus Extra-disciplinary Journals
This study examined the effects of personal and professional faculty characteristics on decisions to disseminate high-quality scholarship to disciplinary social work periodicals. We used a national sample of tenure-track faculty (N = 289) affiliated with PhD-conferring programs to conduct this cross-sectional study. The results of the two-step sequential logistic regression indicated age and area of research interest were significant predictors, …
Relationships of sleep parameters to internalizing problems in children and adolescents
摘要: 睡眠不足和节律紊乱是儿童青少年普遍存在的睡眠问题, 也是导致内化问题产生的重要风险因素。本研究以3197名四到九年级学生(49.7%女生)为研究对象, 采用睡眠日志法考察了夜间睡眠时长、睡眠中点和周末补偿睡眠三个睡眠时间参数与儿童青少年内化问题的关系, 同时检验学段和消极情绪性的调节作用。结果发现, 夜间睡眠时长与初中生和高消极情绪性小学生的内化问题呈U型关系, 最佳睡眠时长的逆转阈限分别是9.09小时和10.39小时; 睡眠中点越晚高消极情绪性初中生内化问题越多; 周末补偿睡眠与低消极情绪性初中生内化问题呈U型关系, 最佳周末补偿睡眠的逆转阈限为1.10小时, 与高消极情绪性初中生的内化问题呈线性关系。本研究结果为儿童青少年科学的睡眠安排提供科学依据, 也提示儿童青少年的作息安排应考虑其发展阶段和气质特征
Exploring associations between neighborhood amenities and mental health
The presence of neighborhood amenities influences youth mental health, with variation by race. • Sidewalks were associated with a higher likelihood of mental health challenges for some groups but lower likelihood for others, signaling the need for attention on how contextual factors shape this relationship. • Community investments in neighborhood amenities can support youth mental health, but require diverse youth voices to achieve equitable outc…
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Korean Schools
Purpose: The use of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has expanded rapidly in Korean school settings, yet few meta-analysis have been conducted. Method: Following Cochrane guidelines, this meta-analysis synthesized experimental studies conducted in Korea from 1995 to 2024. Both peer-reviewed journal articles and theses/dissertations were included. A three-level random effects model was used. Results: Forty-six studies (152 effect sizes) were …
What Factors Inform Decisions about Where to Submit High-Quality Scholarship? A National Sample of Social Work Faculty Share Their Perspectives
Social work journals are essential repositories of the profession’s disciplinary knowledge, but some commentators suggest social work faculty may prioritize sending their best work to extradisciplinary journals. This mixed-methods study examined the propensity of faculty to submit their scholarship to disciplinary rather than extradisciplinary periodicals, and the factors or rationales that informed their respective decisions. To conduct this cro…
A Qualitative Study on the Centralized Quarantine Experiences of Covid‐19 Patients With No or Mild Symptoms in South Korea
To mitigate the COVID‐19 epidemic, the South Korean government implemented institutional quarantine in centralized facilities from March 2020 to November 2022. Patients who tested positive were required to stay in these facilities for up to 2 weeks to meet the minimum 7‐day isolation. During that period, evidence shows that COVID‐19 patients experienced intense psychological and mental health challenges and physical suffering. Using a descriptive…
Examining the Utility of the Early Childhood Development Index (Ecdi) among Children in the Nigeria Context
An estimated 6 million children under the age of five in Nigeria (out of nearly 31 million) risk not reaching their full developmental potential. The dearth of context-relevant measures poses a challenge to the planning and implementation of effective interventions. This study assesses the utility of the Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) in Nigeria. We used the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys to track progress among 3- to 4-year-old chi…
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on suicide-related risk among college students
This study aimed to investigate the factors contributing to suicide-related risks among college students during a stressful life event, specifically the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) model, data from 808 college students were analyzed, revealing key interactions and predictive insights into suicide-related risk. Results indicated that preexisting depression emerged as the most significant risk factor, fo…
The overlooked war in Northern Ethiopia
Background: Conflict-induced displacement is a greater risk factor for mental health challenges, especially in countries where people have limited access to mental health services. This study examined the prevalence of mental distress, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and their relationship with key demographic variables and psychological capital among conflict-induced Internally Displaced People (IDP) in the Wag-Hemra Zone, Amhara Region, …
Individual, familial, and sociocontextual correlates of maternal caregiving among African American adolescents in public housing
Neighborhood tenure mixing
In this brief report, neighborhood tenure mixing is defined as the proportion of owner-occupied versus renter-occupied properties in a neighborhood. The current study examined the association between the proportion of neighborhood tenure mixing, neighborhood crime, and the physical conditions of the neighborhood environment (i.e., incivilities, territoriality, and built environment). Fourteen trained raters (i.e., 7 dyads) used the Revised Block …
Structural and Intermediary Social Determinants of Health and the Emotional and Behavioral Health of US Children
Children grow up in homes where varying environmental and socioeconomic contexts have a bearing on their emotional and behavioral health (EBH). This study used data from a representative sample of the child supplement of the US National Health Information Survey (NHIS) and applied the social determinants of health (SDoH) framework to explore factors associated with child EBH. We conducted a path analysis of the child's EBH measured by the strengt…
Stress Biomarkers in Black Youth
South Korean adolescents' delinquency, disclosure, parental knowledge, parent–child closeness, and delinquent peer associations
The present study sought to examine longitudinal associations among delinquency, children's disclosure to parents, parent-child relationship quality, and parental knowledge in a South Korean sample. Longitudinal research shows that in Western samples, delinquency is negatively associated with the latter three variables. We also sought to test whether the associations varied across gender. We found little evidence of significant reciprocal relatio…
Immigrant Women’s Access to Healthcare Services in the United States
Immigrant women’s perceptions and needs are not well-represented in the health literature. In order to address the gap, this study explores personal and system-level barriers to accessing healthcare services among immigrant women, and their coping mechanisms to overcome these barriers. Using eight databases, a total of 147 studies were retrieved. Of these studies, 11 qualitative studies were selected and synthesized. A theory-generating qualitati…
The Perfect Storm? Covid-19 and Substance Use amongst Social Work Students in the USA
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health risk behaviours related to substance use have been recognised as a significant public health concern amongst university students. Understanding the mechanisms of substance use behaviours, including those used to cope with COVID-19-related stressors, is imperative to curate targeted prevention efforts. To that end, we examined substance use prevalence and its associations with socio-demographic characteristics,…
An Exploratory Study Examining Differences in Drug Court Graduation Rates for Black and White Women
This exploratory study examined factors potentially associated with graduation for White and Black female Drug Treatment Court participants. Multiple logistic regression models for predicting program graduation were employed using an administrative data set ( N = 1,093). Race was significant in a combined model. Age, prior felonies, employment, and negative peer associations predicted graduation for White women, whereas negative peer associations…
Exposure to Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Among Youth in Public Housing
Ranking Disciplinary Social Work Journals
Objective: Publishing in highly ranked disciplinary journals plays a critical role in career advancement. Yet, the process through which journals are classified as top-tier is largely unexamined in the social work literature. To better understand the utility of various methods for determining journal quality, we compare three basic approaches to ranking disciplinary journals: reputation, h-index values, and impact factors (IFs). More specifically…
Assessing the Modified Neighborhood Cohesion Instrument Among African American Adolescents Living in Public Housing
The modified NCI is not ideal for assessing neighborhood cohesion among this understudied population. Future research should prioritize psychometric testing alongside cognitive interviewing, to provide a contextualized measure of neighborhood cohesion for this population
Exposure to community violence and depressive symptoms
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among College Students in Sierra Leone
Exposure to community violence and depressive symptoms
A Comparison Study of Psychiatric and Behavior Disorders and Cognitive Ability Among Homeless and Housed Children
The Disaster Adaptation and Resilience Scale
Given the increasing threat of disasters in the United States and elsewhere around the world, well-tested assessment tools that operationalise specific protective factors associated with adaptation and resilience to such events are needed. Consequently, the authors proposed, developed, and validated the Disaster Adaptation and Resilience Scale (DARS) to measure five domains found to support adaptive responses in individuals exposed to disasters: …
Assessing the Quality and Prestige of Disciplinary Social Work Journals
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to (1) evaluate the overall quality and prestige of all currently active disciplinary social work periodicals and (2) determine whether perceptions of quality among the top 10 journals varied by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and academic rank. Method: To perform this cross-sectional study, we used a national sample of tenure-track faculty ( N = 307) affiliated with PhD granting social work programs. Results: …
Ecological correlates of substance use in African American adolescents living in public housing communities
Food stamp program participation, informal supports, household food security and child food security
The hidden minority
International students in the US occupy a precarious position at the intersection of immigration policy and global education mobility, one made more challenging by the disparate impact of COVID-19 on college students' mental health. Few studies, however, have explored the pandemic's effects on mental well-being among the international student population in the US. Our study aims to provide initial empirical evidence on the mental health status of…
Preventing Violence among Gang-Involved and High-Risk Youth in El Salvador
El Salvador, as a country of the Northern Triangle, exhibits significantly higher rates of crime and delinquency than the rest of the Latin American countries (World Bank 2011). Mass media portray transnational youth gangs in marginalized communities in Central American nations, such as El Salvador, as one of the main factors responsible for the high levels of violence. Few studies have empirically studied active youth gang members and high-risk …
Immigrant Women’s Access to Healthcare Services in the United States
Immigrant women’s perceptions and needs are not well-represented in the health literature. In order to address the gap, this study explores personal and system-level barriers to accessing healthcare services among immigrant women, and their coping mechanisms to overcome these barriers. Using eight databases, a total of 147 studies were retrieved. Of these studies, 11 qualitative studies were selected and synthesized. A theory-generating qualitati…
Ranking Disciplinary Social Work Journals
Objective: Publishing in highly ranked disciplinary journals plays a critical role in career advancement. Yet, the process through which journals are classified as top-tier is largely unexamined in the social work literature. To better understand the utility of various methods for determining journal quality, we compare three basic approaches to ranking disciplinary journals: reputation, h-index values, and impact factors (IFs). More specifically…
Racial and ethnic differences in patterns of adolescent tobacco users
Teaching Master's and Doctoral Social Work Students to Systematically Evaluate Evidence-Based Interventions
Evidence-based research relevant to social work practice has grown dramatically. This article describes a method that was implemented to teach master's and doctoral social work students how to synthesize and evaluate evidence-based interventions for social work–related problems and populations. The method includes eight steps: conceptualize the problem and define the research question(s); conduct a systematic search; define study inclusion and ex…
What Factors Inform Decisions about Where to Submit High-Quality Scholarship? A National Sample of Social Work Faculty Share Their Perspectives
Social work journals are essential repositories of the profession’s disciplinary knowledge, but some commentators suggest social work faculty may prioritize sending their best work to extradisciplinary journals. This mixed-methods study examined the propensity of faculty to submit their scholarship to disciplinary rather than extradisciplinary periodicals, and the factors or rationales that informed their respective decisions. To conduct this cro…
South Korean adolescents' delinquency, disclosure, parental knowledge, parent–child closeness, and delinquent peer associations
The present study sought to examine longitudinal associations among delinquency, children's disclosure to parents, parent-child relationship quality, and parental knowledge in a South Korean sample. Longitudinal research shows that in Western samples, delinquency is negatively associated with the latter three variables. We also sought to test whether the associations varied across gender. We found little evidence of significant reciprocal relatio…
Which Factor has More Impact? An Examination of the Effects of Income Level, Perceived Neighborhood Disorder, and Crime on Community Care and Vigilance Among Low-Income African American Residents
Understanding Alcohol Consumption and Its Correlates among African American Youths in Public Housing
African American youths are overrepresented in urban public housing developments characterized by violence, poverty, and alternative market activities. Using Jessor and Jessor's problem behavior theory (PBT), the authors examined alcohol use and its correlates in a sample of African American youths from three public housing developments (N = 403). Multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to estimate the relative contributions of demog…
A Comparison Study of Psychiatric and Behavior Disorders and Cognitive Ability Among Homeless and Housed Children
Food stamp program participation, informal supports, household food security and child food security
Understanding Alcohol Consumption and Its Correlates among African American Youths in Public Housing
African American youths are overrepresented in urban public housing developments characterized by violence, poverty, and alternative market activities. Using Jessor and Jessor's problem behavior theory (PBT), the authors examined alcohol use and its correlates in a sample of African American youths from three public housing developments (N = 403). Multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to estimate the relative contributions of demog…
Teaching Master's and Doctoral Social Work Students to Systematically Evaluate Evidence-Based Interventions
Evidence-based research relevant to social work practice has grown dramatically. This article describes a method that was implemented to teach master's and doctoral social work students how to synthesize and evaluate evidence-based interventions for social work–related problems and populations. The method includes eight steps: conceptualize the problem and define the research question(s); conduct a systematic search; define study inclusion and ex…
Ecological correlates of substance use in African American adolescents living in public housing communities
Which Factor has More Impact? An Examination of the Effects of Income Level, Perceived Neighborhood Disorder, and Crime on Community Care and Vigilance Among Low-Income African American Residents
Preventing Violence among Gang-Involved and High-Risk Youth in El Salvador
El Salvador, as a country of the Northern Triangle, exhibits significantly higher rates of crime and delinquency than the rest of the Latin American countries (World Bank 2011). Mass media portray transnational youth gangs in marginalized communities in Central American nations, such as El Salvador, as one of the main factors responsible for the high levels of violence. Few studies have empirically studied active youth gang members and high-risk …
Racial and ethnic differences in patterns of adolescent tobacco users
Perceived stress, alcohol consumption, and Internet use among Korean college students
Assessing the Quality and Prestige of Disciplinary Social Work Journals
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to (1) evaluate the overall quality and prestige of all currently active disciplinary social work periodicals and (2) determine whether perceptions of quality among the top 10 journals varied by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and academic rank. Method: To perform this cross-sectional study, we used a national sample of tenure-track faculty ( N = 307) affiliated with PhD granting social work programs. Results: …
Risk Factors of Academic Performance
E-Cigarette, Cigarette, and Dual Use in Korean Adolescents
E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular among adolescent cigarette users. However, little is known about the various factors related to adolescents' use of e-cigarettes, cigarettes, or both in South Korea. Using nationally representative data from the 2017 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, this study examined the possible problem behavior theory factors that contribute to (1) current e-cigarette use among those who have ever used…
An Exploratory Study Examining Differences in Drug Court Graduation Rates for Black and White Women
This exploratory study examined factors potentially associated with graduation for White and Black female Drug Treatment Court participants. Multiple logistic regression models for predicting program graduation were employed using an administrative data set ( N = 1,093). Race was significant in a combined model. Age, prior felonies, employment, and negative peer associations predicted graduation for White women, whereas negative peer associations…
Exposure to Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Among Youth in Public Housing
Ranking Disciplinary Social Work Journals
Objective: Publishing in highly ranked disciplinary journals plays a critical role in career advancement. Yet, the process through which journals are classified as top-tier is largely unexamined in the social work literature. To better understand the utility of various methods for determining journal quality, we compare three basic approaches to ranking disciplinary journals: reputation, h-index values, and impact factors (IFs). More specifically…
Assessing the Modified Neighborhood Cohesion Instrument Among African American Adolescents Living in Public Housing
The modified NCI is not ideal for assessing neighborhood cohesion among this understudied population. Future research should prioritize psychometric testing alongside cognitive interviewing, to provide a contextualized measure of neighborhood cohesion for this population
Exposure to community violence and depressive symptoms
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among College Students in Sierra Leone
The hidden minority
International students in the US occupy a precarious position at the intersection of immigration policy and global education mobility, one made more challenging by the disparate impact of COVID-19 on college students' mental health. Few studies, however, have explored the pandemic's effects on mental well-being among the international student population in the US. Our study aims to provide initial empirical evidence on the mental health status of…
The Disaster Adaptation and Resilience Scale
Given the increasing threat of disasters in the United States and elsewhere around the world, well-tested assessment tools that operationalise specific protective factors associated with adaptation and resilience to such events are needed. Consequently, the authors proposed, developed, and validated the Disaster Adaptation and Resilience Scale (DARS) to measure five domains found to support adaptive responses in individuals exposed to disasters: …
South Korean adolescents' delinquency, disclosure, parental knowledge, parent–child closeness, and delinquent peer associations
The present study sought to examine longitudinal associations among delinquency, children's disclosure to parents, parent-child relationship quality, and parental knowledge in a South Korean sample. Longitudinal research shows that in Western samples, delinquency is negatively associated with the latter three variables. We also sought to test whether the associations varied across gender. We found little evidence of significant reciprocal relatio…
Immigrant Women’s Access to Healthcare Services in the United States
Immigrant women’s perceptions and needs are not well-represented in the health literature. In order to address the gap, this study explores personal and system-level barriers to accessing healthcare services among immigrant women, and their coping mechanisms to overcome these barriers. Using eight databases, a total of 147 studies were retrieved. Of these studies, 11 qualitative studies were selected and synthesized. A theory-generating qualitati…
The Perfect Storm? Covid-19 and Substance Use amongst Social Work Students in the USA
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health risk behaviours related to substance use have been recognised as a significant public health concern amongst university students. Understanding the mechanisms of substance use behaviours, including those used to cope with COVID-19-related stressors, is imperative to curate targeted prevention efforts. To that end, we examined substance use prevalence and its associations with socio-demographic characteristics,…
Individual, familial, and sociocontextual correlates of maternal caregiving among African American adolescents in public housing
Neighborhood tenure mixing
In this brief report, neighborhood tenure mixing is defined as the proportion of owner-occupied versus renter-occupied properties in a neighborhood. The current study examined the association between the proportion of neighborhood tenure mixing, neighborhood crime, and the physical conditions of the neighborhood environment (i.e., incivilities, territoriality, and built environment). Fourteen trained raters (i.e., 7 dyads) used the Revised Block …
Psychology (32 works) · Medicine (28 works) · Clinical Psychology (16 works) · Environmental health (15 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Poison control (13 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (12 works)