Heung-Sik Park

Biographic Data

ID5818779
NAMEHeung-Sik Park
GIVEN NAMESHeung-Sik
FAMILY NAMEPark
SIGNATUREPARK H
AFFILIATIONSChung-Ang University
ORCID0000-0003-0146-773X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS63
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Ethical Muscle

    Open AccessHeung-Sik Park, Joseph Blenkinsopp et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2025

    The aim of this study was to conceptualize ethical muscle, develop a scale to measure it, and verify the scale's validity. After conducting a comprehensive review of the relevant literature, we conceptualized the term ethical muscle using a competency framework. Identifying its meaningful dimensions, we developed an ethical muscle scale in five phases. First, in-depth interviews were conducted with government employees ( N = 20) using the Critica…

  • The negative health effects of external whistleblowing

    Open AccessHeung-Sik Park, David LewisARTICLEThe Social Science Journal2018Cited by: 2References: 1

    Blowing the whistle is a pro-social behaviour which can be highly effective in the sense that wrongdoing is corrected without any adverse consequences for the person alleging or reporting it. It is also risky and can cost whistleblowers their jobs and economic security as well as physical health and mental well-being. The purpose of this study was to identify the negative health effects—physical, behavioral, emotional, and mental—of whistleblowin…

  • Transparency is in the eye of the beholder

    Open AccessHeungsik Park, Heung-Sik Park et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of…2017Cited by: 1References: 34

    Surveys are a commonly used means of measuring transparency levels, but they are potentially vulnerable to perceptual biases. This study sought to examine perceptual differences by the respondents’ identities as general citizens or public employees, and the possible negative perceptions that one group may have of the other concerning responses to a survey-based measure of transparency. The survey was designed on the basis of existing literature, …

  • The roles of transparency and trust in the relationship between corruption and citizen satisfaction

    Open AccessHeungsik Park, Heung-Sik Park et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of…2011Cited by: 60References: 11

    Reducing corruption and improving citizen satisfaction are important aims of government, yet the link between these two policy aims has rarely been explored. This article reports a study into the roles played by transparency and trust in the relationship between governmental corruption and citizen satisfaction with public services. The study was based on data gathered in South Korea to evaluate a specific initiative that had sought to reduce corr…