Youngju Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Youngju Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Youngju |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dong-Eui University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3015-5575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Essentializing Happiness Mitigates the Changes in Subjective Well-Being Following Negative Life Events
People hold different beliefs about the changeability of happiness. Some believe that happiness is biologically predetermined and thus unchangeable (essentialist beliefs), while others believe that it is malleable and can be changed (non-essentialist beliefs). Do these beliefs have a tangible impact on how individuals actually experience well-being? Here, we predict and empirically demonstrate that endorsing essentialist beliefs about happiness (…
Mitigating the Negative Effects of Lower-Class Backgrounds on Subjective Well-Being
Income Is a Stronger Predictor of Subjective Social Class in More Economically Unequal Places
In this research, we examine how the lay conceptualization of subjective social class varies based on economic contexts. We argue that income should be a more central component of subjective social class in areas with higher income inequality. To address the issue of low power in existing research, we combined local-level income inequality indicators with large-scale repeated cross-sectional data, enabling the most reliable test to date on how th…
Middle-Income Groups Perceive Themselves as Belonging to a Higher Social Class When National Income Inequality is Greater
Subjective social class reflects individuals’ beliefs about their position within a social hierarchy and is associated with various important life outcomes. While many studies have investigated the psychological consequences of subjective social class, few have explored its determinants, particularly at the contextual level. This study addresses this gap by examining how individual-level income and contextual-level income inequality interact in p…
How do the news media, academia, and the public view the metaverse? Evidence from South Korea
Impact of the Newspaper in Education Program and Parental Mediation on Adolescents’ Social Participation
This study examines adolescents’ media use after receiving media education, specifically, media education received through Newspaper in Education (NIE) at school and parental mediation at home. The study verifies whether media education stimulates social participation by analyzing adolescents’ self-expression. Data collected through the Korea Press Foundation’s 2019 survey on media use among students aged 10 to 18 in Korea ( N = 1,905) were analy…
Impact of product packaging messages on consumer perceptions and choice
The “Us vs. Them” Mentality
This study examines how affective polarization impacts the partisan divide in perceptions of cable news networks’ political biases. Results from a 2016 U.S. presidential election survey show that affective polarization deepens this divide, even after controlling for election involvement, partisanship strength, and cable news usage. Partisanship strength is more closely associated with in-party love than out-party hate, but out-party hate has a st…
Social Class—Not Income Inequality—Predicts Social and Institutional Trust
Trust is the social glue that holds society together. The academic consensus is that trust is weaker among lower-class individuals and in unequal regions/countries, which is often considered a threat to a healthy society. However, existing studies are inconsistent and have two limitations: (i) variability in the measurement of social class and (ii) small numbers of higher level units (regions/countries). We addressed these problems using large-sc…
Which external shock matters in small open economies? Global risk aversion vs. US economic policy uncertainty
The Olympic paradox
The Olympics aim to promote peace and unity across the globe through sports. Ironically, however, we predicted that the Olympics could be associated with intergroup biases because the Olympics not only activate social/national identity as a citizen, but also highlight intense competition between countries. In support of this prediction, attitudes toward outgroups were negatively associated with international sporting events like the Olympics (Stu…
Incivility on Facebook and political polarization
Influence of Discussion Incivility on Deliberation
Isolating causal relationships is very difficult in natural discussion because discussion is, by nature, a causally complex interactive process. This study provides a novel approach to this problem by using simulated online discussion to experimentally manipulate message characteristics in a timed script that participants believed to be a discussion with other participants. In particular, we manipulated whether simulated online discussion partner…
Intrusion of software robots into journalism
Perceived News Overload and Its Cognitive and Attitudinal Consequences for News Usage in South Korea
This study focuses on the ironic situation in which news is more available than ever but people are becoming overwhelmed and thus avoid it. A theoretical model is suggested to investigate the relationships between perceived news overload and its cognitive and attitudinal consequences among South Korean Internet users. A structural model reveals that perceived news overload induced news avoidance by increasing news fatigue and news analysis paraly…
Mobile communication research in communication journals from 1999 to 2014
This study examined trends and patterns of mobile communication research across 10 communication journals between 1999 and 2014 with the intent to increase knowledge about mobile communication and to help scholars understand the future research directions. A total of 131 articles were coded for general information about journals, primary topic/context of the study, use of theories or models, research methods, units of analysis/types of sample, an…
Tweeting the public
This paper examines the associations between Korean journalists' perceived attitudes toward the public, their relationship with the public, and their Twitter activities. Reading and following the public's tweets was the most frequent activity for journalists on Twitter, followed by Twitter use for their personal life, the promotion of their and their organization's news stories, and job-related interaction activities with the public. Results also…
Seeing is Believing
The present study examines how exposure to uncivil online comments influences individuals' attitude polarization along political party lines, perceived political polarization of the public, and expectations about public deliberation. Findings show that exposure to uncivil online discussion does not affect attitude polarization, but it does significantly affect the perceived polarization of the public. In addition, exposure to uncivil online discu…
Projections of events and propositions in Japanese
Factors affecting e-book reader awareness, interest, and intention to use
This study attempts to identify the predictors of e-book reader diffusion with regard to consumer awareness, interest, and intention to use. Specifically, it assesses the relative influence of demographics, media usage/ownership, and personal traits/perception variables in the technology-adoption process. A national consumer survey conducted in South Korea, a leading country in the proliferation of e-book use, found that e-book reader awareness, …
Mobile communication research in communication journals from 1999 to 2014
This study examined trends and patterns of mobile communication research across 10 communication journals between 1999 and 2014 with the intent to increase knowledge about mobile communication and to help scholars understand the future research directions. A total of 131 articles were coded for general information about journals, primary topic/context of the study, use of theories or models, research methods, units of analysis/types of sample, an…
Factors affecting e-book reader awareness, interest, and intention to use
This study attempts to identify the predictors of e-book reader diffusion with regard to consumer awareness, interest, and intention to use. Specifically, it assesses the relative influence of demographics, media usage/ownership, and personal traits/perception variables in the technology-adoption process. A national consumer survey conducted in South Korea, a leading country in the proliferation of e-book use, found that e-book reader awareness, …
The Olympic paradox
The Olympics aim to promote peace and unity across the globe through sports. Ironically, however, we predicted that the Olympics could be associated with intergroup biases because the Olympics not only activate social/national identity as a citizen, but also highlight intense competition between countries. In support of this prediction, attitudes toward outgroups were negatively associated with international sporting events like the Olympics (Stu…
Projections of events and propositions in Japanese
Factors affecting e-book reader awareness, interest, and intention to use
This study attempts to identify the predictors of e-book reader diffusion with regard to consumer awareness, interest, and intention to use. Specifically, it assesses the relative influence of demographics, media usage/ownership, and personal traits/perception variables in the technology-adoption process. A national consumer survey conducted in South Korea, a leading country in the proliferation of e-book use, found that e-book reader awareness, …
Projections of events and propositions in Japanese
Seeing is Believing
The present study examines how exposure to uncivil online comments influences individuals' attitude polarization along political party lines, perceived political polarization of the public, and expectations about public deliberation. Findings show that exposure to uncivil online discussion does not affect attitude polarization, but it does significantly affect the perceived polarization of the public. In addition, exposure to uncivil online discu…
Tweeting the public
This paper examines the associations between Korean journalists' perceived attitudes toward the public, their relationship with the public, and their Twitter activities. Reading and following the public's tweets was the most frequent activity for journalists on Twitter, followed by Twitter use for their personal life, the promotion of their and their organization's news stories, and job-related interaction activities with the public. Results also…
Intrusion of software robots into journalism
Perceived News Overload and Its Cognitive and Attitudinal Consequences for News Usage in South Korea
This study focuses on the ironic situation in which news is more available than ever but people are becoming overwhelmed and thus avoid it. A theoretical model is suggested to investigate the relationships between perceived news overload and its cognitive and attitudinal consequences among South Korean Internet users. A structural model reveals that perceived news overload induced news avoidance by increasing news fatigue and news analysis paraly…
Mobile communication research in communication journals from 1999 to 2014
This study examined trends and patterns of mobile communication research across 10 communication journals between 1999 and 2014 with the intent to increase knowledge about mobile communication and to help scholars understand the future research directions. A total of 131 articles were coded for general information about journals, primary topic/context of the study, use of theories or models, research methods, units of analysis/types of sample, an…
Influence of Discussion Incivility on Deliberation
Isolating causal relationships is very difficult in natural discussion because discussion is, by nature, a causally complex interactive process. This study provides a novel approach to this problem by using simulated online discussion to experimentally manipulate message characteristics in a timed script that participants believed to be a discussion with other participants. In particular, we manipulated whether simulated online discussion partner…
Incivility on Facebook and political polarization
Which external shock matters in small open economies? Global risk aversion vs. US economic policy uncertainty
The Olympic paradox
The Olympics aim to promote peace and unity across the globe through sports. Ironically, however, we predicted that the Olympics could be associated with intergroup biases because the Olympics not only activate social/national identity as a citizen, but also highlight intense competition between countries. In support of this prediction, attitudes toward outgroups were negatively associated with international sporting events like the Olympics (Stu…
Social Class—Not Income Inequality—Predicts Social and Institutional Trust
Trust is the social glue that holds society together. The academic consensus is that trust is weaker among lower-class individuals and in unequal regions/countries, which is often considered a threat to a healthy society. However, existing studies are inconsistent and have two limitations: (i) variability in the measurement of social class and (ii) small numbers of higher level units (regions/countries). We addressed these problems using large-sc…
The “Us vs. Them” Mentality
This study examines how affective polarization impacts the partisan divide in perceptions of cable news networks’ political biases. Results from a 2016 U.S. presidential election survey show that affective polarization deepens this divide, even after controlling for election involvement, partisanship strength, and cable news usage. Partisanship strength is more closely associated with in-party love than out-party hate, but out-party hate has a st…
How do the news media, academia, and the public view the metaverse? Evidence from South Korea
Impact of the Newspaper in Education Program and Parental Mediation on Adolescents’ Social Participation
This study examines adolescents’ media use after receiving media education, specifically, media education received through Newspaper in Education (NIE) at school and parental mediation at home. The study verifies whether media education stimulates social participation by analyzing adolescents’ self-expression. Data collected through the Korea Press Foundation’s 2019 survey on media use among students aged 10 to 18 in Korea ( N = 1,905) were analy…
Impact of product packaging messages on consumer perceptions and choice
Mitigating the Negative Effects of Lower-Class Backgrounds on Subjective Well-Being
Income Is a Stronger Predictor of Subjective Social Class in More Economically Unequal Places
In this research, we examine how the lay conceptualization of subjective social class varies based on economic contexts. We argue that income should be a more central component of subjective social class in areas with higher income inequality. To address the issue of low power in existing research, we combined local-level income inequality indicators with large-scale repeated cross-sectional data, enabling the most reliable test to date on how th…
Middle-Income Groups Perceive Themselves as Belonging to a Higher Social Class When National Income Inequality is Greater
Subjective social class reflects individuals’ beliefs about their position within a social hierarchy and is associated with various important life outcomes. While many studies have investigated the psychological consequences of subjective social class, few have explored its determinants, particularly at the contextual level. This study addresses this gap by examining how individual-level income and contextual-level income inequality interact in p…
Essentializing Happiness Mitigates the Changes in Subjective Well-Being Following Negative Life Events
People hold different beliefs about the changeability of happiness. Some believe that happiness is biologically predetermined and thus unchangeable (essentialist beliefs), while others believe that it is malleable and can be changed (non-essentialist beliefs). Do these beliefs have a tangible impact on how individuals actually experience well-being? Here, we predict and empirically demonstrate that endorsing essentialist beliefs about happiness (…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Perception (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economics (4 works)