Youngjin Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Youngjin Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Youngjin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haramaya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3348-0963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“It's like jihad”
Elderly Men at Tapgol Park
Tapgol Park and its nearby downtown area in Seoul, South Korea, have attracted a large number of elderly visitors over the past several decades despite a series of urban redevelopment projects that aimed at relocating them to so-called more elder-friendly recreational spaces. In this article, I analysed the sociocultural phenomena and issues surrounding Tapgol Park and its elderly visitors, which have long attracted national attention and debate.…
Pathogen Avoidance and Outgroup Avoidance During the First Wave of the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
Behavioral immune system (BIS) theory explains that humans possess an adaptive psychological mechanism that helps them stay away from potential sources of pathogens. The theory claims that potential sources of pathogens also include outgroups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, because outgroup members potentially carry infectious diseases to which ingroup members have not developed immunity. In order to examine this controversial claim, the c…
Divorced parents' perceived benefits and risks of dating and sharing of dating information
Is helicopter parenting related to college students’ mental health? A typological and cross‐cultural approach
A Comparison of Attitudes About Paternal Child Support Payments in the United States and South Korea
We compared attitudes about child support between the United States and South Korean respondents, using a multiple segment factorial vignette to gather quantitative and qualitative data from 132 Americans and 132 South Koreans. South Koreans were more likely than U.S. respondents to think child support should be paid. Respondents in both countries thought fathers should pay more child support when mothers had sole custody than when both parents s…
Is Empathy a Necessary Function for Future Social Robots? A Discussion of Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and Police Robots
Drawing inspiration from the recent novel Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, and in the context of the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement against police violence, the benefits and drawbacks of installing an empathy function in robots designed for social use are explored. In the novel, empathic robots are used for the purpose of friendship with children, responding to the emotional needs of humans. To contrast the empathic robots with humans, w…
Black Land
Patterns of Paternal Involvement of Korean Fathers
Given roles and expectations of father involvement in South Korea are in transition from traditional breadwinner to an involved caregiver to children, it is plausible that Korean fathers show diverse involvement behaviors in the contexts of work, family, and parenting. Using a person-centered approach, we explored if there were groupings of Korean fathers who could be identified from their involvement with their children. We also examined if thos…
Robot Death and Human Grief in Films
Extant grief studies examine the way humans mourn the loss of a nonhuman, be it an animal, object, or abstract concept. Yet little is known about grief when it comes to robots. As humans are increasingly brought into contact with more human-like machines, it is relevant to consider the nature of our relationship to these technologies. Centered on a qualitative analysis of 35 films, this study seeks to determine whether humans experience grief whe…
Interaction and Identity in a Cultural Space
The Japanese genkan provides a space where one can take off and put on one’s shoes; yet this practical function is also accompanied by a social/symbolic one. As a transitional area, it embodies the Japanese concept of uchi/soto (inside/outside). In this article, the Japanese genkan was analysed to identify (1) what types of interaction take place in a genkan ; and (2) what cultural concepts can be used to identify and classify those types of inte…
Perceived norms of child support payments
The fulfilment of Child Support payments following divorce is important to ensure children’s wellbeing. Guided by a model of normative influences, we investigated how individuals perceived Child Support payments in South Korea and the United States and if they varied by child’s gender, custody arrangements, changes in the responsible father’s finances, and his financial obligations to an aging parent. Both quantitative and qualitative data were c…
The relationship between contingent self-esteem and trait self-esteem
Psychology researchers have suggested that in addition to its level, self-esteem is also manifested by other psychological components. One such component is contingency, which is the degree to which one’s feeling of self-worth is influenced by evaluative standards. I investigated how contingent self-esteem is related to trait self-esteem using Paradise and Kernis’ Contingent Self-Esteem Scale and Rosenberg’s (trait) Self-Esteem Scale. Data collec…
Personification of Death
Kastenbaum and Aisenberg identified a phenomenon, wherein American subjects personified death in four distinctive figures: Macabre, Gentle Comforter, Gay Deceiver, and Automaton. Until recently, though, researchers did not attempt to answer the question, "What specific aspects of the death experience can be attributed to each of those four personifications?" To answer this question, the current qualitative research asked individuals to envision t…
A comparison of stepgrandchildren's perceptions of long-term and later-life stepgrandparents
What's in a Word? Naming Obligations
Although obligation is believed to be a central component of family relationships, empirical investigation of if, how, and to what extent connotations associated with terms commonly used to denote 'family obligation' affect exchanges of family support remains limited. In this mixed-method study, we explored the effects of words commonly used to denote family obligations (i.e., obligation, responsibility, duty) on perceptions of parents' and stepp…
A comparison of stepgrandchildren's perceptions of long-term and later-life stepgrandparents
Patterns of Paternal Involvement of Korean Fathers
Given roles and expectations of father involvement in South Korea are in transition from traditional breadwinner to an involved caregiver to children, it is plausible that Korean fathers show diverse involvement behaviors in the contexts of work, family, and parenting. Using a person-centered approach, we explored if there were groupings of Korean fathers who could be identified from their involvement with their children. We also examined if thos…
Perceived norms of child support payments
The fulfilment of Child Support payments following divorce is important to ensure children’s wellbeing. Guided by a model of normative influences, we investigated how individuals perceived Child Support payments in South Korea and the United States and if they varied by child’s gender, custody arrangements, changes in the responsible father’s finances, and his financial obligations to an aging parent. Both quantitative and qualitative data were c…
Interaction and Identity in a Cultural Space
The Japanese genkan provides a space where one can take off and put on one’s shoes; yet this practical function is also accompanied by a social/symbolic one. As a transitional area, it embodies the Japanese concept of uchi/soto (inside/outside). In this article, the Japanese genkan was analysed to identify (1) what types of interaction take place in a genkan ; and (2) what cultural concepts can be used to identify and classify those types of inte…
What's in a Word? Naming Obligations
Although obligation is believed to be a central component of family relationships, empirical investigation of if, how, and to what extent connotations associated with terms commonly used to denote 'family obligation' affect exchanges of family support remains limited. In this mixed-method study, we explored the effects of words commonly used to denote family obligations (i.e., obligation, responsibility, duty) on perceptions of parents' and stepp…
A comparison of stepgrandchildren's perceptions of long-term and later-life stepgrandparents
What's in a Word? Naming Obligations
Although obligation is believed to be a central component of family relationships, empirical investigation of if, how, and to what extent connotations associated with terms commonly used to denote 'family obligation' affect exchanges of family support remains limited. In this mixed-method study, we explored the effects of words commonly used to denote family obligations (i.e., obligation, responsibility, duty) on perceptions of parents' and stepp…
The relationship between contingent self-esteem and trait self-esteem
Psychology researchers have suggested that in addition to its level, self-esteem is also manifested by other psychological components. One such component is contingency, which is the degree to which one’s feeling of self-worth is influenced by evaluative standards. I investigated how contingent self-esteem is related to trait self-esteem using Paradise and Kernis’ Contingent Self-Esteem Scale and Rosenberg’s (trait) Self-Esteem Scale. Data collec…
Personification of Death
Kastenbaum and Aisenberg identified a phenomenon, wherein American subjects personified death in four distinctive figures: Macabre, Gentle Comforter, Gay Deceiver, and Automaton. Until recently, though, researchers did not attempt to answer the question, "What specific aspects of the death experience can be attributed to each of those four personifications?" To answer this question, the current qualitative research asked individuals to envision t…
Perceived norms of child support payments
The fulfilment of Child Support payments following divorce is important to ensure children’s wellbeing. Guided by a model of normative influences, we investigated how individuals perceived Child Support payments in South Korea and the United States and if they varied by child’s gender, custody arrangements, changes in the responsible father’s finances, and his financial obligations to an aging parent. Both quantitative and qualitative data were c…
Robot Death and Human Grief in Films
Extant grief studies examine the way humans mourn the loss of a nonhuman, be it an animal, object, or abstract concept. Yet little is known about grief when it comes to robots. As humans are increasingly brought into contact with more human-like machines, it is relevant to consider the nature of our relationship to these technologies. Centered on a qualitative analysis of 35 films, this study seeks to determine whether humans experience grief whe…
Interaction and Identity in a Cultural Space
The Japanese genkan provides a space where one can take off and put on one’s shoes; yet this practical function is also accompanied by a social/symbolic one. As a transitional area, it embodies the Japanese concept of uchi/soto (inside/outside). In this article, the Japanese genkan was analysed to identify (1) what types of interaction take place in a genkan ; and (2) what cultural concepts can be used to identify and classify those types of inte…
Is Empathy a Necessary Function for Future Social Robots? A Discussion of Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and Police Robots
Drawing inspiration from the recent novel Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, and in the context of the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement against police violence, the benefits and drawbacks of installing an empathy function in robots designed for social use are explored. In the novel, empathic robots are used for the purpose of friendship with children, responding to the emotional needs of humans. To contrast the empathic robots with humans, w…
Black Land
Patterns of Paternal Involvement of Korean Fathers
Given roles and expectations of father involvement in South Korea are in transition from traditional breadwinner to an involved caregiver to children, it is plausible that Korean fathers show diverse involvement behaviors in the contexts of work, family, and parenting. Using a person-centered approach, we explored if there were groupings of Korean fathers who could be identified from their involvement with their children. We also examined if thos…
Divorced parents' perceived benefits and risks of dating and sharing of dating information
Is helicopter parenting related to college students’ mental health? A typological and cross‐cultural approach
A Comparison of Attitudes About Paternal Child Support Payments in the United States and South Korea
We compared attitudes about child support between the United States and South Korean respondents, using a multiple segment factorial vignette to gather quantitative and qualitative data from 132 Americans and 132 South Koreans. South Koreans were more likely than U.S. respondents to think child support should be paid. Respondents in both countries thought fathers should pay more child support when mothers had sole custody than when both parents s…
Pathogen Avoidance and Outgroup Avoidance During the First Wave of the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
Behavioral immune system (BIS) theory explains that humans possess an adaptive psychological mechanism that helps them stay away from potential sources of pathogens. The theory claims that potential sources of pathogens also include outgroups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, because outgroup members potentially carry infectious diseases to which ingroup members have not developed immunity. In order to examine this controversial claim, the c…
“It's like jihad”
Elderly Men at Tapgol Park
Tapgol Park and its nearby downtown area in Seoul, South Korea, have attracted a large number of elderly visitors over the past several decades despite a series of urban redevelopment projects that aimed at relocating them to so-called more elder-friendly recreational spaces. In this article, I analysed the sociocultural phenomena and issues surrounding Tapgol Park and its elderly visitors, which have long attracted national attention and debate.…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (6 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)