Paul Kwon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4235848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Kwon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Kwon |
| SIGNATURE | KWON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bullying in schools and LGBTQ+ youth mental health: Relations with voting for Trump
The current study utilized the 2018 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey to explore the relations among school district political attitudes, bullying experiences, and mental health outcomes, particularly for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) students. Although bullying was associated with greater psychological distress (i.e., anxiety, depression, and suicidality) for all students, LGBTQ+ students experienced more bullying a…
A Resilience Intervention to Increase Academic Persistence Among Undocumented Students in Higher Education
We designed a resilience intervention in the form of a self-help workbook. It was made to address the challenges of being an undocumented student. The workbook includes modules on increasing social support, hope for the future, and emotional openness. In an initial feasibility study, participants reported that the workbook contains valuable information. A second feasibility study that incorporated eight weekly group meetings led to significantly …
Empirically based psychological interventions with sexual minority youth: A systematic review
Extraversion as a moderator of resilience factors in lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults
The present study aims to replicate and expand findings from a prior study that examined whether extraversion moderates the beneficial effects of resilience factors of social support and emotional openness among sexual minorities. We recruited 389 lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults. Participants completed a series of measures on extraversion, social support, emotional openness, and depression online. Among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults, depres…
Extraversion as a moderator for resilience factors among gay men
The present study examined the moderating role of extraversion on the relationship between depressive symptoms and the resilience factors of social support and emotional openness (the ability to accept and process one's emotion) among gay men. Extraversion, social support, and emotional openness were all associated with lower depressive symptoms. Extraversion did not moderate the relationship between social support and depressive symptoms among g…
A comprehensive approach to sexual and transgender prejudice
Prejudice and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals continues to have a detrimental impact on the mental health of this population. Research examining commonalities and uniqueness among negative attitudes toward specific sexual and gender minority groups is extremely limited. The authors propose that research examining sexual prejudice include attitudes toward diverse subgroups within the larger…
Resilience in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
To promote psychological health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, more comprehensive research on resilience factors in LGB individuals is needed. This article presents a theoretical framework based on the existing literature, with an eye toward guiding future research in this area. Social support clearly serves as a resilience factor for LGB individuals, in part through its ability to lower reactivity to prejudice. Social suppor…
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Speaker Panels Lead to Attitude Change Among Heterosexual College Students
The contact hypothesis (Allport, 1954 Allport, G. W. 1954. The nature of prejudice, Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley. [Google Scholar]) suggests that a speaker panel intervention may be effective in reducing prejudice toward sexual minorities among heterosexual individuals. Addressing methodological limitations of prior studies, the present study compared the effects of a speaker panel presentation versus a control condition in altering attitudes am…
The Protective Role of Hope for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals Facing a Hostile Workplace Climate
A prospective study was conducted to examine whether hope would buffer the damaging effects of a hostile workplace climate among a sample of 65 lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. Participants completed initial measures of life satisfaction, hope, and optimism. One month later, participants again completed the life satisfaction measure, along with a workplace climate questionnaire. After controlling for optimism, hope emerged as a main effect…
Excessive Self-Enhancement and Interpersonal Functioning in Roommate Relationships: Her Virtue is His Vice
The current paper assesses gender differences in the effects of excessive self-enhancement on interpersonal perceptions. Based on gender-related differences in interpersonal functioning, we predicted that overly favorable self-enhancement would differentially affect interpersonal relationships among women versus men. This possibility was assessed in a study of 105 undergraduates and their same-sex roommates. Target participants completed a measur…
Hope, Defense Mechanisms, and Adjustment: Implications for False Hope and Defensive Hopelessness
Two studies replicated and expanded an earlier finding that defense style plays a crucial role in the relation between hope and dysphoria ( Kwon, 2000 ). Lower hope and higher defense style immaturity were each associated with greater dysphoria, depression proneness, and maladjustment. Individuals with low hope and low defense immaturity did not have poor outcomes, supporting the existence of a subtype of low hope (defensive hopelessness) that ma…
Membership in a Devalued Social Group and Emotional Well-Being: Developing a Model of Personal Self-Esteem, Collective Self-Esteem, and Group Socialization
Hope and Dysphoria: The Moderating Role of Defense Mechanisms
It was hypothesized that the adaptive value of hope cognitions would be dependent upon the quality of an individual's defense style. Undergraduate students completed measures of hope, defense mechanisms, and dysphoria in two studies. As predicted, defense mechanisms significantly moderated the relation between hope and dysphoria. In addition, both hope and defense mechanisms predicted dysphoria as main effects. Individuals who had low hope and an…
Attributional Style and Psychodynamic Defense Mechanisms: Toward an Integrative Model of Depression
The present study examined the influences of cognitive style and psychodynamic defense mechanisms in accounting for levels of dysphoria. Measures of dysphoria, defense mechanisms, and attributional style were completed by 147 undergraduate students. Consistent with the hypothesis, both attributional style and principalization were independently associated with dysphoria. Moreover, principalization moderated the influence of attributional style on…
Life stress and dysphoria: The role of self-esteem and hopelessness
Membership in a Devalued Social Group and Emotional Well-Being: Developing a Model of Personal Self-Esteem, Collective Self-Esteem, and Group Socialization
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Speaker Panels Lead to Attitude Change Among Heterosexual College Students
The contact hypothesis (Allport, 1954 Allport, G. W. 1954. The nature of prejudice, Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley. [Google Scholar]) suggests that a speaker panel intervention may be effective in reducing prejudice toward sexual minorities among heterosexual individuals. Addressing methodological limitations of prior studies, the present study compared the effects of a speaker panel presentation versus a control condition in altering attitudes am…
A comprehensive approach to sexual and transgender prejudice
Prejudice and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals continues to have a detrimental impact on the mental health of this population. Research examining commonalities and uniqueness among negative attitudes toward specific sexual and gender minority groups is extremely limited. The authors propose that research examining sexual prejudice include attitudes toward diverse subgroups within the larger…
Life stress and dysphoria: The role of self-esteem and hopelessness
Empirically based psychological interventions with sexual minority youth: A systematic review
Life stress and dysphoria: The role of self-esteem and hopelessness
Attributional Style and Psychodynamic Defense Mechanisms: Toward an Integrative Model of Depression
The present study examined the influences of cognitive style and psychodynamic defense mechanisms in accounting for levels of dysphoria. Measures of dysphoria, defense mechanisms, and attributional style were completed by 147 undergraduate students. Consistent with the hypothesis, both attributional style and principalization were independently associated with dysphoria. Moreover, principalization moderated the influence of attributional style on…
Hope and Dysphoria: The Moderating Role of Defense Mechanisms
It was hypothesized that the adaptive value of hope cognitions would be dependent upon the quality of an individual's defense style. Undergraduate students completed measures of hope, defense mechanisms, and dysphoria in two studies. As predicted, defense mechanisms significantly moderated the relation between hope and dysphoria. In addition, both hope and defense mechanisms predicted dysphoria as main effects. Individuals who had low hope and an…
Hope, Defense Mechanisms, and Adjustment: Implications for False Hope and Defensive Hopelessness
Two studies replicated and expanded an earlier finding that defense style plays a crucial role in the relation between hope and dysphoria ( Kwon, 2000 ). Lower hope and higher defense style immaturity were each associated with greater dysphoria, depression proneness, and maladjustment. Individuals with low hope and low defense immaturity did not have poor outcomes, supporting the existence of a subtype of low hope (defensive hopelessness) that ma…
Membership in a Devalued Social Group and Emotional Well-Being: Developing a Model of Personal Self-Esteem, Collective Self-Esteem, and Group Socialization
Excessive Self-Enhancement and Interpersonal Functioning in Roommate Relationships: Her Virtue is His Vice
The current paper assesses gender differences in the effects of excessive self-enhancement on interpersonal perceptions. Based on gender-related differences in interpersonal functioning, we predicted that overly favorable self-enhancement would differentially affect interpersonal relationships among women versus men. This possibility was assessed in a study of 105 undergraduates and their same-sex roommates. Target participants completed a measur…
The Protective Role of Hope for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals Facing a Hostile Workplace Climate
A prospective study was conducted to examine whether hope would buffer the damaging effects of a hostile workplace climate among a sample of 65 lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. Participants completed initial measures of life satisfaction, hope, and optimism. One month later, participants again completed the life satisfaction measure, along with a workplace climate questionnaire. After controlling for optimism, hope emerged as a main effect…
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Speaker Panels Lead to Attitude Change Among Heterosexual College Students
The contact hypothesis (Allport, 1954 Allport, G. W. 1954. The nature of prejudice, Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley. [Google Scholar]) suggests that a speaker panel intervention may be effective in reducing prejudice toward sexual minorities among heterosexual individuals. Addressing methodological limitations of prior studies, the present study compared the effects of a speaker panel presentation versus a control condition in altering attitudes am…
Resilience in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
To promote psychological health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, more comprehensive research on resilience factors in LGB individuals is needed. This article presents a theoretical framework based on the existing literature, with an eye toward guiding future research in this area. Social support clearly serves as a resilience factor for LGB individuals, in part through its ability to lower reactivity to prejudice. Social suppor…
Extraversion as a moderator for resilience factors among gay men
The present study examined the moderating role of extraversion on the relationship between depressive symptoms and the resilience factors of social support and emotional openness (the ability to accept and process one's emotion) among gay men. Extraversion, social support, and emotional openness were all associated with lower depressive symptoms. Extraversion did not moderate the relationship between social support and depressive symptoms among g…
A comprehensive approach to sexual and transgender prejudice
Prejudice and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals continues to have a detrimental impact on the mental health of this population. Research examining commonalities and uniqueness among negative attitudes toward specific sexual and gender minority groups is extremely limited. The authors propose that research examining sexual prejudice include attitudes toward diverse subgroups within the larger…
Extraversion as a moderator of resilience factors in lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults
The present study aims to replicate and expand findings from a prior study that examined whether extraversion moderates the beneficial effects of resilience factors of social support and emotional openness among sexual minorities. We recruited 389 lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults. Participants completed a series of measures on extraversion, social support, emotional openness, and depression online. Among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults, depres…
Empirically based psychological interventions with sexual minority youth: A systematic review
A Resilience Intervention to Increase Academic Persistence Among Undocumented Students in Higher Education
We designed a resilience intervention in the form of a self-help workbook. It was made to address the challenges of being an undocumented student. The workbook includes modules on increasing social support, hope for the future, and emotional openness. In an initial feasibility study, participants reported that the workbook contains valuable information. A second feasibility study that incorporated eight weekly group meetings led to significantly …
Bullying in schools and LGBTQ+ youth mental health: Relations with voting for Trump
The current study utilized the 2018 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey to explore the relations among school district political attitudes, bullying experiences, and mental health outcomes, particularly for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) students. Although bullying was associated with greater psychological distress (i.e., anxiety, depression, and suicidality) for all students, LGBTQ+ students experienced more bullying a…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Anxiety (7 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Lesbian (6 works)