K Korinek
Biographic Data
| ID | 45091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Korinek |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Korinek |
| SIGNATURE | KORINEK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3148-1639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Life-Course Adversity, Adult Socioeconomic Position, and Possible Sarcopenia Among Older Adults in Postwar Vietnam
ObjectivesThis study examines how early-life hardship, wartime exposure, military service, and adult socioeconomic position are associated with grip strength-based possible sarcopenia among older adults in postwar Vietnam.MethodsWe analyzed data from the Wave 1 Vietnam Health and Aging Study among 2,166 adults aged 59 and older. Possible sarcopenia was defined using Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia 2019 grip-strength thresholds; survey-adjusted…
Contexts, kin and cognition: Effects of living arrangements and family resources on the cognitive function of older adults in Vietnam
Immigrant Generation and Depressive Symptom Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Midlife: Evidence from Add Health
Using 20,771 participants from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we examined depressive symptom trajectories by immigrant generation from adolescence to midlife. Depressive symptoms were assessed across five waves using a validated four-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale. Linear mixed effects models with a quintic polynomial age trajectory indicated that first- and second-generation immigrants repo…
Depressive symptom trajectories from adolescence to midlife among Latin Americans in the United States: Variation by generation and region of origin
Research on mental health among Latin Americans in the United States remains inconclusive in part because prior studies have not adequately distinguished immigrant generation and national origin differences. To examine how depressive symptoms evolve from adolescence through midlife among U.S. Latin Americans, we analyzed five waves of data from 3525 self-identified Hispanic/Latino participants in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to A…
Introduction: Demography and War—Research on Population and Health in Contexts of Armed Conflict
Aging & dementia in Asia: Insights into risk & protective factors through demography & family studies
Migration Amidst Conflict and Cumulative Causation: An Analysis of International & Domestic Migration in Thailand’s Southernmost Provinces
Thailand’s southernmost provinces (TSP) have experienced prolonged insurgency violence and economic deprivation, leading to substantial outmigration. Examining how the two factors interact to shape migration decision-making will provide a broader understanding of how they influence migration in other regions. In this study, we hypothesize that: (1) Residents of TSP will be more likely to migrate out of their province if they reside in households …
Cognitive function following early life war-time stress exposure in a cohort of Vietnamese older adults
Changes in Smoking Prevalence from Adolescence to Adulthood among Asian Americans: Evidence of Selective Acculturation across Gender
It is well established that immigrant adolescents have lower smoking rates than their native-born counterparts. Although smoking rates among immigrants have been theorized to increase with U.S. acculturation, this hypothesis has seldom been tested using longitudinal data spanning multiple developmental stages. The authors address this limitation using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to model age-based smoki…
The Racial Configuration of Parent Couples and Premature Birth: An Analysis of the Utah Population Database
Gendered Exposure, Gendered Response: Exposure to Wartime Stressors and PTSD in Older Vietnamese War Survivors
Growing numbers of women in militaries worldwide, coupled with vast segments of women within war-affected populations globally, raise questions about gender as it structures trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental health consequences of war. In this study, we investigate the gendered associations between early-life wartime stress exposures and PTSD symptoms in older adulthood using data from the 2018 Vietnam Health…
Assessing exposure to war-related traumatic events in older Vietnamese war survivors
These findings suggest the need for distinct but parallel approaches to measuring war-related stressors for populations of veterans and civilians exposed to war in their home countries and the need for greater public attention to the potential lingering trauma of noncombatants
A life course perspective on the wartime migrations of northern Vietnamese war survivors
Research addressing conflict and migration has made great strides in explaining the relationship between violence and migration. However, it commonly lacks individual-level data on exposure to war. We use survey data from the 2018 Vietnam Health and Aging Study to examine the associations between war-related violence exposure during the American War and the wartime migrations of northern Vietnamese war survivors. Using multilevel mixed-effects co…
Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Frailty Among Older Adults in Vietnam: Does War Hasten Aging
War trauma hastens aging and warrants greater attention toward long-term implications of war on health among vast postconflict populations across the globe
The Impact of Early Life War Exposure on Mental Health among Older Adults in Northern and Central Vietnam
Most Vietnamese young adults who experienced the American War were exposed to war-related violence, which can exert a lifelong impact. We analyze survey data collected among northern and central Vietnamese older adults in the 2018 Vietnam Health and Aging Study (N = 2,447) to examine the association between various war traumas, psychological distress, and suicidal ideation. Informed by life course and stress process perspectives, we use structura…
Immigrant Fertility in Comparative Perspective: South Africa and the United States
Because immigrant fertility is situated within two societies, the resultant childbearing patterns reflect a culmination of selectivity into migration alongside blended experiences of origin-destination contexts around fertility norms. We analyze the ways that national origin shapes patterns of childbearing within fertility covariates. We use data from Statistics South Africa and the United States Census Bureau harmonized in the Integrated Public …
Is war hard on the heart? Gender, wartime stress and late life cardiovascular conditions in a population of Vietnamese older adults
Design and measurement in a study of war exposure, health, and aging: Protocol for the Vietnam health and aging study
Future VHAS investigations will examine dynamic linkages between war exposure, mortality and morbidity, while taking into account the selective nature of each of these processes. Longitudinal analyses will examine late-life health transitions and war-related resiliency
Disaster vulnerability, displacement, and infectious disease: Nicaragua and Hurricane Mitch
Living in skipped generation households and happiness among middle-aged and older grandparents in China
Modelling urban expansion in the transitional Greater Mekong Region
Urban expansion in emerging urban areas has drawn plenty of attention. The Greater Mekong Region (GMR) has experienced dramatic urbanisation and urban land expansion in recent decades. Based on built-up area data from the World Bank compiled over the 2000–2010 period, this paper integrates geographical, socioeconomic and physical factors to explore the underlying patterns and dynamics of urban land expansion in the GMR. An explicit and critical e…
Building walls or opening borders? Global immigration policy attitudes across economic, cultural and human security contexts
Ethnicity, education attainment, media exposure, and prenatal care in Vietnam
Our results imply the needs for expansion of media access and schools as well as positive health messages being broadcasted in culturally competent ways
Physical and Mental Health Consequences of War-related Stressors Among Older Adults: An Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Arthritis in Northern Vietnamese War Survivors
Our study provides insights into the burden of conflict upon health among populations of the global south that survived war and are now entering older adulthood. The pattern of results, indicating greatest suffering among those who inflicted or failed to prevent bodily harm or loss of life, is consistent with the concept of moral injury
Military Service, Exposure to Trauma, and Health in Older Adulthood: An Analysis of Northern Vietnamese Survivors of the Vietnam War
Objectives. We sought to better understand the association between early life exposure to war and trauma and older adult health status in a developing setting. Methods. We analyzed data of 405 Vietnamese men and women in 1 northern Vietnam commune who entered early adulthood during the Vietnam War and who are now entering late adulthood (i.e., ages 55 years and older in 2010). Results. The toll of war’s trauma in the aging northern Vietnamese pop…
Through Thick and Thin: Layers of Social Ties and Urban Settlement among Thai Migrants
A unique longitudinal and prospective approach is used to analyze the social embeddedness of rural-urban Thai migrants and their subsequent migration. More than any one particular social tie, it is the configuration of social ties at multiple levels that influences whether migrants experience their destination as integrative and a place for settlement or not. Social ties at multiple levels and from multiple sources weave into a social fabric that…
Transitions in Marital Status and Functional Health and Patterns of Intergenerational Coresidence Among China's Elderly Population
Results are interpreted in light of the adaptability of living arrangements, novel forms such as skip generation households, and intergenerational support for China's elderly population
Prenatal care among immigrant and racial-ethnic minority women in a new immigrant destination: Exploring the impact of immigrant legal status
Passing by the Girls? Remittance Allocation for Educational Expenditures and Social Inequality in Nepal's Households 2003–2004
We examine the utilization of remittances for expenditures associated with development, specifically children's education. We use household-level data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS II, 2003–04) to separate remittance effects from general household income effects to demonstrate the migration–development relationship reflected in child schooling investment. We find that family-household remittances are spent on education of children,…
Train the Whole Scholar: A Developmentally Based Program for Teaching Assistant Training in Sociology
Kim Korinek, Judith A. Howard, George S. Bridges, "Train the Whole Scholar": A Developmentally Based Program for Teaching Assistant Training in Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 343-359
Migrant Interactions With Elderly Parents in Rural Cambodia and Thailand
This paper examines interactions between older adults living in rural areas of Thailand and Cambodia and their adult children. Thai data come from the Survey of the Welfare of the Elderly (N= 3,202 older adults and 17,517 adult children). Cambodia data are from the Survey of the Elderly in Cambodia (N= 777 older adults and 3,751 adult children). Results indicate that older adults in rural areas are not being abandoned, and supportive expressions …
The long-term impact of war on health and wellbeing in Northern Vietnam: Some glimpses from a recent survey
Is war hard on the heart? Gender, wartime stress and late life cardiovascular conditions in a population of Vietnamese older adults
Family life course transitions and rural Household economy during China’s market reform
This article investigates the effect of family life course transitions on labor allocation strategies in rural Chinese households. We highlight three types of economic activity that involve reallocation of household labor oriented toward a more diversified, nonfarm rural economy: involvement in wage employment, household entrepreneurship, and/or multiple activities that span economic sectors. With the use of data from the China Health and Nutriti…
Shifting coresidence near the end of life: Comparing decedents and survivors of a follow-up study in China
What we know about transitions in coresidence of elders in China is based on panel data involving survivors. This article examines the tendency to and determinants of shifts in coresidence with adult children among the very old, comparing survivors of an intersurvey period with those who died (decedents). Data come from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. Baseline and follow-up surveys indicate shifts in coresidence, defined as cha…
Does Family Size Predict Whether an Older Adult Lives With or Proximate to an Adult Child in the Asia-Pacific Region
This study examines the probability that an older adult—from one of six Asian societies sampled—lives in the same household or proximate to an adult child and how this probability fluctuates by the number of children, rural/urban residence, and several other covariates. Proximate residence is defined as living either with or near a child. Results show positive and linear associations between number of children and proximate residence, that is, ea…
Maternal Employment during Northern Vietnam's Era of Market Reform
This research explores the relationship between family structure and maternal employment in Vietnam's Red River Delta, a region experiencing economic development and market transition. Analyses of work intensity, measured as working hours and multiple jobholding, demonstrate that women, including mothers of infants and preschoolers, persistently work at high levels of intensity Work intensity is especially high among women raising teenage childre…
Living in skipped generation households and happiness among middle-aged and older grandparents in China
Building walls or opening borders? Global immigration policy attitudes across economic, cultural and human security contexts
Cognitive function following early life war-time stress exposure in a cohort of Vietnamese older adults
Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Frailty Among Older Adults in Vietnam: Does War Hasten Aging
War trauma hastens aging and warrants greater attention toward long-term implications of war on health among vast postconflict populations across the globe
Modelling urban expansion in the transitional Greater Mekong Region
Urban expansion in emerging urban areas has drawn plenty of attention. The Greater Mekong Region (GMR) has experienced dramatic urbanisation and urban land expansion in recent decades. Based on built-up area data from the World Bank compiled over the 2000–2010 period, this paper integrates geographical, socioeconomic and physical factors to explore the underlying patterns and dynamics of urban land expansion in the GMR. An explicit and critical e…
Crossing Borders, Crossing Seas: The Philippines, Gender and the Bounding of Cumulative Causation
In this study, we assess how the composition of migrant workers varies with migration prevalence within Filipino communities. Specifically, we test the hypothesis of past cumulative causation scholars that increased migration prevalence results in a decline in migrant selectivity. The Philippines has a social, political and geographical context that differs from that of many other countries characterized by high migration. In this study, we consi…
Migration Amidst Conflict and Cumulative Causation: An Analysis of International & Domestic Migration in Thailand’s Southernmost Provinces
Thailand’s southernmost provinces (TSP) have experienced prolonged insurgency violence and economic deprivation, leading to substantial outmigration. Examining how the two factors interact to shape migration decision-making will provide a broader understanding of how they influence migration in other regions. In this study, we hypothesize that: (1) Residents of TSP will be more likely to migrate out of their province if they reside in households …
Military Service, Exposure to Trauma, and Health in Older Adulthood: An Analysis of Northern Vietnamese Survivors of the Vietnam War
Objectives. We sought to better understand the association between early life exposure to war and trauma and older adult health status in a developing setting. Methods. We analyzed data of 405 Vietnamese men and women in 1 northern Vietnam commune who entered early adulthood during the Vietnam War and who are now entering late adulthood (i.e., ages 55 years and older in 2010). Results. The toll of war’s trauma in the aging northern Vietnamese pop…
The status attainment of young adults during market transition: The case of Vietnam
Gendered Exposure, Gendered Response: Exposure to Wartime Stressors and PTSD in Older Vietnamese War Survivors
Growing numbers of women in militaries worldwide, coupled with vast segments of women within war-affected populations globally, raise questions about gender as it structures trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental health consequences of war. In this study, we investigate the gendered associations between early-life wartime stress exposures and PTSD symptoms in older adulthood using data from the 2018 Vietnam Health…
The Impact of Early Life War Exposure on Mental Health among Older Adults in Northern and Central Vietnam
Most Vietnamese young adults who experienced the American War were exposed to war-related violence, which can exert a lifelong impact. We analyze survey data collected among northern and central Vietnamese older adults in the 2018 Vietnam Health and Aging Study (N = 2,447) to examine the association between various war traumas, psychological distress, and suicidal ideation. Informed by life course and stress process perspectives, we use structura…
Immigrant Fertility in Comparative Perspective: South Africa and the United States
Because immigrant fertility is situated within two societies, the resultant childbearing patterns reflect a culmination of selectivity into migration alongside blended experiences of origin-destination contexts around fertility norms. We analyze the ways that national origin shapes patterns of childbearing within fertility covariates. We use data from Statistics South Africa and the United States Census Bureau harmonized in the Integrated Public …
Ethnicity, education attainment, media exposure, and prenatal care in Vietnam
Our results imply the needs for expansion of media access and schools as well as positive health messages being broadcasted in culturally competent ways
Train the Whole Scholar: A Developmentally Based Program for Teaching Assistant Training in Sociology
Kim Korinek, Judith A. Howard, George S. Bridges, "Train the Whole Scholar": A Developmentally Based Program for Teaching Assistant Training in Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 343-359
Maternal Employment during Northern Vietnam's Era of Market Reform
This research explores the relationship between family structure and maternal employment in Vietnam's Red River Delta, a region experiencing economic development and market transition. Analyses of work intensity, measured as working hours and multiple jobholding, demonstrate that women, including mothers of infants and preschoolers, persistently work at high levels of intensity Work intensity is especially high among women raising teenage childre…
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Through Thick and Thin: Layers of Social Ties and Urban Settlement among Thai Migrants
A unique longitudinal and prospective approach is used to analyze the social embeddedness of rural-urban Thai migrants and their subsequent migration. More than any one particular social tie, it is the configuration of social ties at multiple levels that influences whether migrants experience their destination as integrative and a place for settlement or not. Social ties at multiple levels and from multiple sources weave into a social fabric that…
The status attainment of young adults during market transition: The case of Vietnam
The Migration and Development Prism: A Lens on Vulnerabilities and Capabilities
The inexorable link between migration and development is paradoxically both taken for granted and a challenging puzzle. Describing interdependent dynamic processes, the study of both offers opportunities to theorize and observe social change. The body of knowledge that has come to include studies of both migration and development has enriched the individual fields of migration and development. In the development field, concerned with the processe…
Residential Clustering among Nang Rong Migrants in Urban Settings of Thailand
This study examines the residential patterns of rural-urban migrants in Thailand. The analysis takes advantage of a rich dataset that followed migrants from rural Nang Rong, a district in the Isan region, to the Bangkok metropolitan area and the Eastern Seaboard. Findings document substantial residential clustering: almost half of the migrants interviewed in 2000 and 2001 lived in neighborhoods where 80 percent or more of their neighbors came fro…
Opportunities and Vulnerabilities of Female Migrants in Construction Work in India
This paper is based on a case study of female migrants working in construction-the second largest industry in India and one which employs almost 30 million people, approximately 30 percent of which are women, many of them migrants. In this paper, we extend beyond an empirical description of female migrant workers in the field of construction, considering the subjective and nuanced realities linked to women's lived experiences as migrants. The stu…
Does Family Size Predict Whether an Older Adult Lives With or Proximate to an Adult Child in the Asia-Pacific Region
This study examines the probability that an older adult—from one of six Asian societies sampled—lives in the same household or proximate to an adult child and how this probability fluctuates by the number of children, rural/urban residence, and several other covariates. Proximate residence is defined as living either with or near a child. Results show positive and linear associations between number of children and proximate residence, that is, ea…
Migrant Interactions With Elderly Parents in Rural Cambodia and Thailand
This paper examines interactions between older adults living in rural areas of Thailand and Cambodia and their adult children. Thai data come from the Survey of the Welfare of the Elderly (N= 3,202 older adults and 17,517 adult children). Cambodia data are from the Survey of the Elderly in Cambodia (N= 777 older adults and 3,751 adult children). Results indicate that older adults in rural areas are not being abandoned, and supportive expressions …
Family life course transitions and rural Household economy during China’s market reform
This article investigates the effect of family life course transitions on labor allocation strategies in rural Chinese households. We highlight three types of economic activity that involve reallocation of household labor oriented toward a more diversified, nonfarm rural economy: involvement in wage employment, household entrepreneurship, and/or multiple activities that span economic sectors. With the use of data from the China Health and Nutriti…
Shifting coresidence near the end of life: Comparing decedents and survivors of a follow-up study in China
What we know about transitions in coresidence of elders in China is based on panel data involving survivors. This article examines the tendency to and determinants of shifts in coresidence with adult children among the very old, comparing survivors of an intersurvey period with those who died (decedents). Data come from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. Baseline and follow-up surveys indicate shifts in coresidence, defined as cha…
Transitions in Marital Status and Functional Health and Patterns of Intergenerational Coresidence Among China's Elderly Population
Results are interpreted in light of the adaptability of living arrangements, novel forms such as skip generation households, and intergenerational support for China's elderly population
Prenatal care among immigrant and racial-ethnic minority women in a new immigrant destination: Exploring the impact of immigrant legal status
Passing by the Girls? Remittance Allocation for Educational Expenditures and Social Inequality in Nepal's Households 2003–2004
We examine the utilization of remittances for expenditures associated with development, specifically children's education. We use household-level data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS II, 2003–04) to separate remittance effects from general household income effects to demonstrate the migration–development relationship reflected in child schooling investment. We find that family-household remittances are spent on education of children,…
Crossing Borders, Crossing Seas: The Philippines, Gender and the Bounding of Cumulative Causation
In this study, we assess how the composition of migrant workers varies with migration prevalence within Filipino communities. Specifically, we test the hypothesis of past cumulative causation scholars that increased migration prevalence results in a decline in migrant selectivity. The Philippines has a social, political and geographical context that differs from that of many other countries characterized by high migration. In this study, we consi…
The long-term impact of war on health and wellbeing in Northern Vietnam: Some glimpses from a recent survey
Military Service, Exposure to Trauma, and Health in Older Adulthood: An Analysis of Northern Vietnamese Survivors of the Vietnam War
Objectives. We sought to better understand the association between early life exposure to war and trauma and older adult health status in a developing setting. Methods. We analyzed data of 405 Vietnamese men and women in 1 northern Vietnam commune who entered early adulthood during the Vietnam War and who are now entering late adulthood (i.e., ages 55 years and older in 2010). Results. The toll of war’s trauma in the aging northern Vietnamese pop…
Ethnicity, education attainment, media exposure, and prenatal care in Vietnam
Our results imply the needs for expansion of media access and schools as well as positive health messages being broadcasted in culturally competent ways
Physical and Mental Health Consequences of War-related Stressors Among Older Adults: An Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Arthritis in Northern Vietnamese War Survivors
Our study provides insights into the burden of conflict upon health among populations of the global south that survived war and are now entering older adulthood. The pattern of results, indicating greatest suffering among those who inflicted or failed to prevent bodily harm or loss of life, is consistent with the concept of moral injury
Modelling urban expansion in the transitional Greater Mekong Region
Urban expansion in emerging urban areas has drawn plenty of attention. The Greater Mekong Region (GMR) has experienced dramatic urbanisation and urban land expansion in recent decades. Based on built-up area data from the World Bank compiled over the 2000–2010 period, this paper integrates geographical, socioeconomic and physical factors to explore the underlying patterns and dynamics of urban land expansion in the GMR. An explicit and critical e…
Building walls or opening borders? Global immigration policy attitudes across economic, cultural and human security contexts
Design and measurement in a study of war exposure, health, and aging: Protocol for the Vietnam health and aging study
Future VHAS investigations will examine dynamic linkages between war exposure, mortality and morbidity, while taking into account the selective nature of each of these processes. Longitudinal analyses will examine late-life health transitions and war-related resiliency
Disaster vulnerability, displacement, and infectious disease: Nicaragua and Hurricane Mitch
Living in skipped generation households and happiness among middle-aged and older grandparents in China
Medicine (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Population (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Demography (16 works) · Economics (16 works) · Gerontology (16 works) · Demography (14 works)