- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research
- Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Family Support in Illness
- Community Health and Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Mentoring and Academic Development
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Higher Education Research Studies
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Educational Outcomes and Influences
- Public Policy and Governance
University of Illinois Chicago
2024
Fuller Theological Seminary
2016-2022
Biola University
2010-2017
A growing body of research points to the important role played by “institutional agents” in facilitating college access and success for students from non-dominant racial-ethnic low socioeconomic status groups. Applying attachment theory, this study adds that literature demonstrating how institutional agents can provide a secure base, psychological sense, such low-status United States make successful postsecondary transitions develop collegiate identities. Based on life stories 10 who...
Research has focused heavily on mother's experiences of children with life-threatening illnesses. In contrast, fathers' experiences, especially among minorities, are scarcely discussed. This study examined the 15 fathers as primary medical caretakers diagnosed cancer or sickle cell disease. Using a life story method, completed semistructured interviews regarding their overall experiences. Data was analyzed using narrative analysis multiple case studies. Results indicated single, low...
Abstract Although science was originally broadly conceptualized as a systematic, rigorous activity to produce trustworthy knowledge, psychologists, those following the mainstream, adopted single philosophy of and strictly enforced natural only proper “scientific” psychology. Qualitative research has been part modern psychology from beginning, but it obscured for nearly century positivist epistemology came dominate field. Building culturally robust intelligible theories capable responding...
While the current literature has indicated parental affection as a potential buffer to common stressors missionary kids experience, majority of is based on European American samples. However, number non-Western missionaries rapidly increasing, and both ethnicity cultural identification are thought influence emotional development for kids. In study, 77 Caucasian 41 Asian between ages 18–25 completed measures assessing perceived coping abilities. Fifty-one individuals identified most with...
As research on attachment has exploded, theories and studies spirituality also flourished in the west. In contrast, similar researches are scarce China. Are measurements applicable universally? there any links between parental God attachment? The present study used mixed methods to examine these questions. First, 355 Christians from Mainland China finished Relationship Structures Questionnaire (ECR-RS), Attachment Inventory, Image Scales, Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory-2. Next, a...
본 연구는 급속한 근대화와 세계화 과정을 거치면서 한국의 전통적인 가치관의 변화가 한국노인들의 노화경험에 대한 인식에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 대해 알아보고자 하였다. 사회적, 문화적인 한국노인의 노화 경험에 미치는지 이해하기 위해 도시, 농촌, 그리고 미국이라는 세 가지 지리적 위치에 거주하는 경험의 유사점과 차이점을 다차원적으로 비교분석하였다. 연구의 수행을 위하여 한국노인 30명을 대상으로 생애인터뷰를 하였으며, 신체적 쇠퇴에도 불구하고 노년기에 의미 있고 탄력 있는 삶을 사는 심리적, 정서적, 영적 경험을 분석하는데 중점을 두었다. 분석결과 첫째, 내러티브 분석을 토대로 긍정적, 부정적 미치는 영역으로 건강, 정신적 가족관계, 일, 여가/사회적 활동, 영성 요인이 도출되었다. 둘째, 주제분석을 공통적으로 도출된 노화의 요인은 '자식들에게 빚지지 않는 삶', '신체적, 건강', '잘 죽는 것'으로 나타났다. 특히 신앙은 노년기 삶에 관점을 이해하고 받아들이는 데 중요한...