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Psychology Department (0436)
109 Williams Hall
Blacksburg VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-6581
Fax: 540-231-3652
Email: psycinfo@vt.edu
Jungmeen Kim
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Assistant Professor

Faculty Psychology Department

Faculty Developmental and Biological Psychology

Faculty/Consultant Child Study Center

jungmeen@vt.edu

540-231-0951
Virginia Tech
Department of Psychology
233 Williams Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
United States

Office Hours:
T 1:0-2:30
Other times by appointment
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To make an appointment, please email at jungmeen@vt.edu.


JK Lifespan Development Lab: http://www.psyc.vt.edu/labs/jklifespan

Background

  • 2000-2005 Research Assistant Professor, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
  • 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • 1993-1998 Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Research/Professional Interests

  • Social and personality development; dynamic relationships among personality, social relationships, and psychological well-being across the life span.
  • Risk and resilience in developmental psychopathology (family and peer relations as risk and protective factors); Childhood relationship stress and trauma (child maltreatment and parental psychopathology)
  • Life-span developmental research methodology; quantitative methods for studying variability and change; analyses of developmental processes and life course transitions.
  • Religious and spiritual development during childhood and adolescence

Recent Courses Taught

  • 6954 - Advanced Topics in Psychological Sciences: Risk and Resilience
  • 6944 - Risk and Resilience in Development
  • 4364 - Senior Seminar: Family and Peer Relations
  • 4034 - Advanced Developmental Psychology

Publications

Kim, J., & Cicchetti, D. (2009). Mean-level change and intraindividual variability in self-esteem and depression among high-risk children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, 202-214.
Kim, J. & Williams, S. R. (2009). Linking childhood maltreatment to substance use in college students: The mediating role of self-worth contingencies. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 18, 88-105.
Kim, J., Talbot, N. L., & Cicchetti, D. (2009). Childhood abuse and current interpersonal conflict: The mediating role of shame. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33, 362-371.
Kim, J, Mullineaux, P. Y., Allen, B., & Deater-Deckard, K. (2009). Longitudinal studies of stability in attention span and anger: Context and informant effects. Journal of Personality, Manuscript in press.
Kim, J., McCullough, M. E., & Cicchetti, D. (2009). Parents' and children's religiosity and child psychopathology among maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 18, 594-605.
Alink, L.R.A., Cicchetti, D., Kim, J., & Rogosch, F. A. (2009). Mediating and moderating processes in the relation between maltreatment and psychopathology: Mother-child relationship quality and emotion regulation. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37, 831-843.
Kim, J., Nesselroade, J. R., & McCullough, M. E. (2009). Dynamic factor analysis of worldviews/ religious beliefs and well-being among older adults. Journal of Adult Development, 16, 87-100.
Kim, J., Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Manly, J. T. (2009). Child maltreatment and trajectories of personality and behavioral functioning: Implications for the development of personality disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 889-912.
Kim, J. & Cicchetti, D. (2009). Longitudinal pathways linking child abuse and neglect, emotion regulation, peer rejection, and psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Manuscript in press.
Kim, J. (2008). The protective effects of religiosity on maladjustment among maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Child Abuse & Neglect, 32, 711-720.
Kim, J., & Cicchetti, D. (2006). Longitudinal trajectories of self-system processes and depressive symptoms among maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Child Development, 77, 624-639.
Kim, J., & Cicchetti, D. (2004). A longitudinal study of child maltreatment, mother-child relationship quality and maladjustment: The role of self-esteem and social competence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 32, 341-354.
Kim, J., & Cicchetti, D. (2003). Social self-efficacy and behavior problems in maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 32, 109-120.
Kim, J. E., & Nesselroade, J. R. (2003). Relationship among social support, self-concept, and well-being of older adults: A study of process using dynamic factor models. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 27, 49-65.
Toth, S. L., Cicchetti, D., & Kim, J. E. (2002). Relations between maltreated children’s perceptions of parents, control-related beliefs, and behavioral symptomatology. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 483-500.
Kim, J. E., & Moen. P. (2002). Retirement transitions, gender, and psychological well-being: A life-course, ecological model. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, P212-P222.
Manly, J. T., Kim, J. E., Rogosch, F. A., & Cicchetti, D. (2001). Dimensions of child maltreatment and children’s adjustment: Contributions of developmental timing and subtype. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 759-782.
Kim, J. E., & Moen. P. (2001). Is retirement good or bad for subjective well-being?. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 83-86.
Moen. P., Kim, J. E., & Hofmeister, H. (2001). Couples’ work/ retirement transitions, gender, and marital quality. Social Psychology Quarterly, 64, 55-71.
Kim, J. E., Hetherington, E. M., & Reiss, D. (1999). Associations between family relationships, antisocial peers, and adolescents' externalizing behaviors: Gender and family type differences. Child Development, 70, 1209-1230.
Kim, J. E., Nesselroade, J. R., & Featherman, D. L. (1996). The state component in self-reported worldviews and religious beliefs of older adults: The MacArthur successful aging studies. Psychology and Aging, 11, 396 - 407.