Philip Young P Hong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Young P Hong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip Young P |
| FAMILY NAME | Hong |
| SIGNATURE | HONG P Y P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3346-2917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Spiritual Practices Among American Adults
Practitioners are called to administer spiritual assessments to—in part—identify spiritual practices or activities that can potentially be leveraged to help clients deal with problems. This study assists practitioners to conduct spiritual assessments by positioning them to identify common spiritual practices. Nationally representative data are used to determine the prevalence of 17 different spiritual practices, and the relationship between self-…
Psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) as an empowerment pathway among economically disadvantaged youth and young adults in South Korea
Developing and validating the perceived youth barriers scale (Pybs)
Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for Financial Capability
Purpose: Financial knowledge often does not translate into financial well-being. This study looks at how knowledge might be converted to well-being for people living in low-income environments, based on a theory called Financial PSS. Methods: The study tests the validity of the two scales that make up Financial PSS: Perceived Financial Barriers and Financial Hope. Then it examines how these measures along with an intervention measure called TIP a…
Psychological Self-Sufficiency and Financial Literacy among Low-Income Participants
Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for Fatherhood
The purpose of this study is to examine the psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) process among low-income men participating in the Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) program and explore the implications of TIP as a fatherhood intervention. Sample from 324 men participating in a community-based fatherhood initiative and four local job training programs in a large Midwestern city was used to examine the group differences in PSS as it relat…
Factors Associated with Employment Hope among North Korean Defectors in South Korea
The purpose of this study is to examine various factors associated with employment hope among 702 North Korean defectors who newly entered the Settlement Support Center in South Korea. These defectors typical cross the border into China whose government does not grant them refugee status, considering them irregular economic migrants. Employment hope is a significant issue of concern as it has consistently been found to contribute to economic succ…
Hope Is Greater than Barriers”
This study explored a strength-based, anti-poverty program called Pathway of Hope (POH) of the Salvation Army based on the data that was collected from 11 focus groups consisting of 30 service users and 32 service providers in 2017. The results of the qualitative content analysis found four main categories for creating a pathway of hope: (a) case manager as a personal coach and spiritual accompanist; (b) goal attainment in the POH process; (c) re…
A Randomized Controlled Trial Study of Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) Policy Experiment in South Korea
Purpose: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) study examined the efficacy of the Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) program for low-income, low-skilled jobseekers in the Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP) in South Korea. Method: A total of 169 participants in SSP regional centers were randomly assigned to the intervention group (104 participants) and the wait-list control group (65 participants). Employment hope, perceived employment barri…
Steadfast benevolence
Validation of the Employment Hope Scale (EHS) among summer youth employment program participants
Examining Psychological Self-Sufficiency Among Low-Income Jobseekers with Mental Health Barriers
Spirituality, Employment Hope, and Grit
Journal Article Spirituality, Employment Hope, and Grit: Modeling the Relationship among Underemployed Urban African Americans Get access David R Hodge, David R Hodge Address correspondence to David R. Hodge, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Avenue, Suite 800, MC 3920, CoPP, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0689. This research was supported by the University Partnership Research Grants for the Health Profession Opportunity Grants …
Facilitating Transformation in Workforce Training
Acknowledging the scarcity of a bottom up social work practice model in facilitating the development of success in workforce development programs, this study explores Psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) as an emerging social work practice theory. Phenomenological studies of low-income jobseekers in employment training along with the empirical validation of measures of the core constructs of PSS – employment hope scale (EHS) and perceived employm…
Psychological Self-Sufficiency
Journal Article Psychological Self-Sufficiency: A Bottom-Up Theory of Change in Workforce Development Get access Philip Young P Hong, Philip Young P Hong Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sangmi Choi, Sangmi Choi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Whitney Key Whitney Key Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume…
A Cross-National Validation of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) in the United States and South Korea
The Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) has been developed in the United States to assess an individual's level of psychological self-sufficiency-a complementary measure to the widely used economic self-sufficiency in workforce development programs. This study examined the comparability of the EHS-14 between U.S. and South Korean low-income job seeker groups. A multisample confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and a series of invariance tests were …
Spirituality, Hope, and Self-Sufficiency among Low-Income Job Seekers
Self-sufficiency (SS) is an important social welfare policy goal in the United States, yet little is known about the process that leads to SS. To address this gap in the literature, this study examined the relationship between spirituality, hope, and SS among a sample of low-income job seekers (N = 116). It was hypothesized that spirituality would be related to hope, and that hope, in turn, would be related to SS. Using survey data from two workf…
Comparison of perceived employment barriers among low-income jobseekers in the United States and South Korea
The Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) has been validated as a tool to assess low-income individuals’ level of employment barriers in the United States. Using samples from workforce development programs in the United States and South Korea, this study aims to examine the comparability of this measure and to compare score differences on the five factors of PEBS between the two samples. Evidence for cross-sample equivalence was found, indica…
Poverty Among Korean Immigrant Older Adults
Previous studies have shown that elderly Asian immigrants face greater risks for living in poverty compared with their native contemporaries. Particularly, Korean immigrant older adults are reported to be most likely to experience poverty among many Asian immigrant groups. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which demographic, human capital, and social exclusion factors contribute to such economic vulnerability among Korean immi…
A Multisample Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14)
Employment hope is an aspect of psychological self-sufficiency that captures the process of empowerment for low-income job seekers. It is posited that this process of maintaining and developing employment hope contributes to the economic self-sufficiency outcome. The preliminary 14-item 2-factor Employment Hope Scale (EHS) was previously developed using an exploratory factor analysis (Hong, Polanin, & Pigott, 2012). This study examines whether th…
Development of the Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (Pebs)
The purpose of this study is to (a) validate the psychometric properties of the Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) and (b) investigate the effect of perceived barriers on employment hope. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA), a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and a series of invariance tests were conducted to validate PEBS using two independent samples. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the hypothesized relationship. …
Toward A Client-Centered Benchmark for Self-Sufficiency
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how service providers, clients, and graduates of a job training program define the term self-sufficiency (SS). This community-engaged, mixed method study qualitatively analyzes focus group data from each group and quantitatively examines survey data obtained from participants of the program. Findings reveal that psychological transformation as a ‘process’ represents the emic definition of SS—psychological …
The Changing Map of Characteristics and Service Needs Among Korean American Immigrants in Chicago
The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify various sociogeographic characteristics and emerging service needs of older adult immigrants resulting from suburbanization and socioeconomic changes in Chicago during the last two decades. Integrating the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with the Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA), this study analyzes data from 529 Korean American older adults who received services from a Korean et…
Validation of the Employment Hope Scale
Objectives: The Employment Hope scale (EHS) was designed to measure the empowerment-based self-sufficiency (SS) outcome among low-income job-seeking clients. This measure captures the psychological SS dimension as opposed to the more commonly used economic SS in workforce development and employment support practice. The study validates the EHS and reports its psychometric properties. Method: An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted usin…
Evaluation of an Intensive In-Home Family Treatment Program to Prevent Out-Of-Home Placement
Family preservation programs were developed out of concern that some abused or neglected children were being placed unnecessarily in foster care without adequate attempts first being made to rehabilitate and retain the intact family. This study evaluated the effectiveness of an intensive, in-home family preservation program, which provides counseling services to families at imminent risk of having a child or children removed from the home. Pre- a…
Toward A Client-Centered Benchmark for Self-Sufficiency
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how service providers, clients, and graduates of a job training program define the term self-sufficiency (SS). This community-engaged, mixed method study qualitatively analyzes focus group data from each group and quantitatively examines survey data obtained from participants of the program. Findings reveal that psychological transformation as a ‘process’ represents the emic definition of SS—psychological …
Validation of the Employment Hope Scale
Objectives: The Employment Hope scale (EHS) was designed to measure the empowerment-based self-sufficiency (SS) outcome among low-income job-seeking clients. This measure captures the psychological SS dimension as opposed to the more commonly used economic SS in workforce development and employment support practice. The study validates the EHS and reports its psychometric properties. Method: An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted usin…
Spirituality, Hope, and Self-Sufficiency among Low-Income Job Seekers
Self-sufficiency (SS) is an important social welfare policy goal in the United States, yet little is known about the process that leads to SS. To address this gap in the literature, this study examined the relationship between spirituality, hope, and SS among a sample of low-income job seekers (N = 116). It was hypothesized that spirituality would be related to hope, and that hope, in turn, would be related to SS. Using survey data from two workf…
Glocalization of social work practice
Globalization has become a catchword for the integration of local markets into world capitalism. This article raises social justice concerns in governments shirking their social responsibilities for caring for those who are most vulnerable to the risk of globalization. By structuring the world as a global society where both local and global responses can interact to ameliorate the conditions of global citizens, the article proposes a glocalizatio…
Facilitating Transformation in Workforce Training
Acknowledging the scarcity of a bottom up social work practice model in facilitating the development of success in workforce development programs, this study explores Psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) as an emerging social work practice theory. Phenomenological studies of low-income jobseekers in employment training along with the empirical validation of measures of the core constructs of PSS – employment hope scale (EHS) and perceived employm…
Comparison of perceived employment barriers among low-income jobseekers in the United States and South Korea
The Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) has been validated as a tool to assess low-income individuals’ level of employment barriers in the United States. Using samples from workforce development programs in the United States and South Korea, this study aims to examine the comparability of this measure and to compare score differences on the five factors of PEBS between the two samples. Evidence for cross-sample equivalence was found, indica…
Poverty Among Korean Immigrant Older Adults
Previous studies have shown that elderly Asian immigrants face greater risks for living in poverty compared with their native contemporaries. Particularly, Korean immigrant older adults are reported to be most likely to experience poverty among many Asian immigrant groups. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which demographic, human capital, and social exclusion factors contribute to such economic vulnerability among Korean immi…
A Randomized Controlled Trial Study of Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) Policy Experiment in South Korea
Purpose: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) study examined the efficacy of the Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) program for low-income, low-skilled jobseekers in the Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP) in South Korea. Method: A total of 169 participants in SSP regional centers were randomly assigned to the intervention group (104 participants) and the wait-list control group (65 participants). Employment hope, perceived employment barri…
Psychological Self-Sufficiency
Journal Article Psychological Self-Sufficiency: A Bottom-Up Theory of Change in Workforce Development Get access Philip Young P Hong, Philip Young P Hong Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sangmi Choi, Sangmi Choi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Whitney Key Whitney Key Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume…
Differential Effects of Human Capital on the Poor and Near-Poor
This article contributes to the body of knowledge by examining the differential effects of three dimensions of human capital—education, training, and health—on the poor and upper income categories. We tested the effects using binomial and multinomial logistic regression analyses of working age individuals. The study revealed that these human capital variables are strong predictors of poverty in the binomial model but have greater effects on the n…
Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for Fatherhood
The purpose of this study is to examine the psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) process among low-income men participating in the Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) program and explore the implications of TIP as a fatherhood intervention. Sample from 324 men participating in a community-based fatherhood initiative and four local job training programs in a large Midwestern city was used to examine the group differences in PSS as it relat…
Spirituality, Employment Hope, and Grit
Journal Article Spirituality, Employment Hope, and Grit: Modeling the Relationship among Underemployed Urban African Americans Get access David R Hodge, David R Hodge Address correspondence to David R. Hodge, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Avenue, Suite 800, MC 3920, CoPP, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0689. This research was supported by the University Partnership Research Grants for the Health Profession Opportunity Grants …
A Cross-National Validation of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) in the United States and South Korea
The Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) has been developed in the United States to assess an individual's level of psychological self-sufficiency-a complementary measure to the widely used economic self-sufficiency in workforce development programs. This study examined the comparability of the EHS-14 between U.S. and South Korean low-income job seeker groups. A multisample confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and a series of invariance tests were …
A Multisample Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14)
Employment hope is an aspect of psychological self-sufficiency that captures the process of empowerment for low-income job seekers. It is posited that this process of maintaining and developing employment hope contributes to the economic self-sufficiency outcome. The preliminary 14-item 2-factor Employment Hope Scale (EHS) was previously developed using an exploratory factor analysis (Hong, Polanin, & Pigott, 2012). This study examines whether th…
Development-induced impoverishment among involuntarily displaced populations
Over the past few years, involuntary resettlement has incurred adverse social and economic consequences for those displaced due to the shortcomings of resettlement and rehabilitation policies. Poor planning, implementation, and monitoring during the involuntary resettlement process resulted in unnecessary resettlement that interrupted provision of basic necessities to the people affected. This article attempts to address the severity and scope of…
Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for Financial Capability
Purpose: Financial knowledge often does not translate into financial well-being. This study looks at how knowledge might be converted to well-being for people living in low-income environments, based on a theory called Financial PSS. Methods: The study tests the validity of the two scales that make up Financial PSS: Perceived Financial Barriers and Financial Hope. Then it examines how these measures along with an intervention measure called TIP a…
Factors Associated with Employment Hope among North Korean Defectors in South Korea
The purpose of this study is to examine various factors associated with employment hope among 702 North Korean defectors who newly entered the Settlement Support Center in South Korea. These defectors typical cross the border into China whose government does not grant them refugee status, considering them irregular economic migrants. Employment hope is a significant issue of concern as it has consistently been found to contribute to economic succ…
Hope Is Greater than Barriers”
This study explored a strength-based, anti-poverty program called Pathway of Hope (POH) of the Salvation Army based on the data that was collected from 11 focus groups consisting of 30 service users and 32 service providers in 2017. The results of the qualitative content analysis found four main categories for creating a pathway of hope: (a) case manager as a personal coach and spiritual accompanist; (b) goal attainment in the POH process; (c) re…
Steadfast benevolence
Validation of the Employment Hope Scale (EHS) among summer youth employment program participants
Development of the Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (Pebs)
The purpose of this study is to (a) validate the psychometric properties of the Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) and (b) investigate the effect of perceived barriers on employment hope. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA), a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and a series of invariance tests were conducted to validate PEBS using two independent samples. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the hypothesized relationship. …
The Changing Map of Characteristics and Service Needs Among Korean American Immigrants in Chicago
The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify various sociogeographic characteristics and emerging service needs of older adult immigrants resulting from suburbanization and socioeconomic changes in Chicago during the last two decades. Integrating the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with the Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA), this study analyzes data from 529 Korean American older adults who received services from a Korean et…
A Cross-National Comparison of Welfare Effort during an Age of Welfare State Retrenchment
This study presents analyses of socioeconomic and political perspectives in explaining government social welfare activities cross nationally. The indicators of social development 1970–1983 provided the empirical data, from which 1980 variables were extracted to conduct a series of multiple regression analyses. Variables are modeled as suggested by two major streams of theories – socioeconomic and political explanations for a nation's performance …
A Cross-National Comparison of Welfare Effort during an Age of Welfare State Retrenchment
This study presents analyses of socioeconomic and political perspectives in explaining government social welfare activities cross nationally. The indicators of social development 1970–1983 provided the empirical data, from which 1980 variables were extracted to conduct a series of multiple regression analyses. Variables are modeled as suggested by two major streams of theories – socioeconomic and political explanations for a nation's performance …
Reunification of Korea
This paper deals with Korea, a nation divided for more than half a century, and aims to shed some light on the type of social welfare regime that will need to come to the fore in the process of gradual reunification, whenever it inevitably occurs. Reunification will create changes in mobility, urbanization, employment, housing, healthcare, and social welfare in general. Many of the basic facets of society will be redrawn and rearranged. A compara…
Differential Effects of Human Capital on the Poor and Near-Poor
This article contributes to the body of knowledge by examining the differential effects of three dimensions of human capital—education, training, and health—on the poor and upper income categories. We tested the effects using binomial and multinomial logistic regression analyses of working age individuals. The study revealed that these human capital variables are strong predictors of poverty in the binomial model but have greater effects on the n…
Development-induced impoverishment among involuntarily displaced populations
Over the past few years, involuntary resettlement has incurred adverse social and economic consequences for those displaced due to the shortcomings of resettlement and rehabilitation policies. Poor planning, implementation, and monitoring during the involuntary resettlement process resulted in unnecessary resettlement that interrupted provision of basic necessities to the people affected. This article attempts to address the severity and scope of…
Evaluation of an Intensive In-Home Family Treatment Program to Prevent Out-Of-Home Placement
Family preservation programs were developed out of concern that some abused or neglected children were being placed unnecessarily in foster care without adequate attempts first being made to rehabilitate and retain the intact family. This study evaluated the effectiveness of an intensive, in-home family preservation program, which provides counseling services to families at imminent risk of having a child or children removed from the home. Pre- a…
Glocalization of social work practice
Globalization has become a catchword for the integration of local markets into world capitalism. This article raises social justice concerns in governments shirking their social responsibilities for caring for those who are most vulnerable to the risk of globalization. By structuring the world as a global society where both local and global responses can interact to ameliorate the conditions of global citizens, the article proposes a glocalizatio…
The Changing Map of Characteristics and Service Needs Among Korean American Immigrants in Chicago
The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify various sociogeographic characteristics and emerging service needs of older adult immigrants resulting from suburbanization and socioeconomic changes in Chicago during the last two decades. Integrating the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with the Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA), this study analyzes data from 529 Korean American older adults who received services from a Korean et…
Validation of the Employment Hope Scale
Objectives: The Employment Hope scale (EHS) was designed to measure the empowerment-based self-sufficiency (SS) outcome among low-income job-seeking clients. This measure captures the psychological SS dimension as opposed to the more commonly used economic SS in workforce development and employment support practice. The study validates the EHS and reports its psychometric properties. Method: An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted usin…
Toward A Client-Centered Benchmark for Self-Sufficiency
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how service providers, clients, and graduates of a job training program define the term self-sufficiency (SS). This community-engaged, mixed method study qualitatively analyzes focus group data from each group and quantitatively examines survey data obtained from participants of the program. Findings reveal that psychological transformation as a ‘process’ represents the emic definition of SS—psychological …
Poverty Among Korean Immigrant Older Adults
Previous studies have shown that elderly Asian immigrants face greater risks for living in poverty compared with their native contemporaries. Particularly, Korean immigrant older adults are reported to be most likely to experience poverty among many Asian immigrant groups. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which demographic, human capital, and social exclusion factors contribute to such economic vulnerability among Korean immi…
A Multisample Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14)
Employment hope is an aspect of psychological self-sufficiency that captures the process of empowerment for low-income job seekers. It is posited that this process of maintaining and developing employment hope contributes to the economic self-sufficiency outcome. The preliminary 14-item 2-factor Employment Hope Scale (EHS) was previously developed using an exploratory factor analysis (Hong, Polanin, & Pigott, 2012). This study examines whether th…
Development of the Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (Pebs)
The purpose of this study is to (a) validate the psychometric properties of the Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) and (b) investigate the effect of perceived barriers on employment hope. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA), a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and a series of invariance tests were conducted to validate PEBS using two independent samples. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the hypothesized relationship. …
Spirituality, Hope, and Self-Sufficiency among Low-Income Job Seekers
Self-sufficiency (SS) is an important social welfare policy goal in the United States, yet little is known about the process that leads to SS. To address this gap in the literature, this study examined the relationship between spirituality, hope, and SS among a sample of low-income job seekers (N = 116). It was hypothesized that spirituality would be related to hope, and that hope, in turn, would be related to SS. Using survey data from two workf…
Comparison of perceived employment barriers among low-income jobseekers in the United States and South Korea
The Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) has been validated as a tool to assess low-income individuals’ level of employment barriers in the United States. Using samples from workforce development programs in the United States and South Korea, this study aims to examine the comparability of this measure and to compare score differences on the five factors of PEBS between the two samples. Evidence for cross-sample equivalence was found, indica…
A Cross-National Validation of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) in the United States and South Korea
The Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) has been developed in the United States to assess an individual's level of psychological self-sufficiency-a complementary measure to the widely used economic self-sufficiency in workforce development programs. This study examined the comparability of the EHS-14 between U.S. and South Korean low-income job seeker groups. A multisample confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and a series of invariance tests were …
Psychological Self-Sufficiency
Journal Article Psychological Self-Sufficiency: A Bottom-Up Theory of Change in Workforce Development Get access Philip Young P Hong, Philip Young P Hong Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sangmi Choi, Sangmi Choi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Whitney Key Whitney Key Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume…
Spirituality, Employment Hope, and Grit
Journal Article Spirituality, Employment Hope, and Grit: Modeling the Relationship among Underemployed Urban African Americans Get access David R Hodge, David R Hodge Address correspondence to David R. Hodge, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Avenue, Suite 800, MC 3920, CoPP, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0689. This research was supported by the University Partnership Research Grants for the Health Profession Opportunity Grants …
Facilitating Transformation in Workforce Training
Acknowledging the scarcity of a bottom up social work practice model in facilitating the development of success in workforce development programs, this study explores Psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) as an emerging social work practice theory. Phenomenological studies of low-income jobseekers in employment training along with the empirical validation of measures of the core constructs of PSS – employment hope scale (EHS) and perceived employm…
Hope Is Greater than Barriers”
This study explored a strength-based, anti-poverty program called Pathway of Hope (POH) of the Salvation Army based on the data that was collected from 11 focus groups consisting of 30 service users and 32 service providers in 2017. The results of the qualitative content analysis found four main categories for creating a pathway of hope: (a) case manager as a personal coach and spiritual accompanist; (b) goal attainment in the POH process; (c) re…
A Randomized Controlled Trial Study of Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) Policy Experiment in South Korea
Purpose: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) study examined the efficacy of the Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) program for low-income, low-skilled jobseekers in the Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP) in South Korea. Method: A total of 169 participants in SSP regional centers were randomly assigned to the intervention group (104 participants) and the wait-list control group (65 participants). Employment hope, perceived employment barri…
Steadfast benevolence
Validation of the Employment Hope Scale (EHS) among summer youth employment program participants
Examining Psychological Self-Sufficiency Among Low-Income Jobseekers with Mental Health Barriers
Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for Fatherhood
The purpose of this study is to examine the psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) process among low-income men participating in the Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) program and explore the implications of TIP as a fatherhood intervention. Sample from 324 men participating in a community-based fatherhood initiative and four local job training programs in a large Midwestern city was used to examine the group differences in PSS as it relat…
Factors Associated with Employment Hope among North Korean Defectors in South Korea
The purpose of this study is to examine various factors associated with employment hope among 702 North Korean defectors who newly entered the Settlement Support Center in South Korea. These defectors typical cross the border into China whose government does not grant them refugee status, considering them irregular economic migrants. Employment hope is a significant issue of concern as it has consistently been found to contribute to economic succ…
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