Full Time Faculty

Jinseok Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
DeSaussure 124
College of Social Work
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

(803) 576-6082 Office
(803) 777-3498 Fax
e-mail: jinseokk@gwm.sc.edu

Educational Background:

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
MSSW, University of Texas at Austin
MS, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
BS, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Research Interests:

- Children & family

Child welfare/ child maltreatment prevention
Child care decision, experience, and early childhood outcomes
Children & adolescents’ health & health related behaviors

- Neighborhood effects on children & adolescents’ well-being
- Quantitative research methodology
- Program evaluation

Selected Publications:

Peer Reviewed Journal:

Kim, J., & Gray, K. (2008). Leave or stay? Battered women’s decisions after intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, doi:10.1177/0886260508314307.

Kim, J., & Fram, M. (Accepted pending revision as of May 2008; originally submitted in Jul 2007). Profiles of choice: Parents patterns of priority in child care decision-making. Submitted to Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Fram, M., & Kim, J. (In press). Race/ethnicity and the start of child care: A multi-level analysis of factors influencing first child care experiences. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Lee, J., Busch, N. B., Kim, J. & Lim, H. (2007). Attitudes toward date rape in South Korea: Examining gender differences. Sex Roles, 57, 641-649.

Choi, N. G., Kim, J., & Asseff, J. (In press; will appear in 2009). Neglect and self-neglect of vulnerable older adults: Reexamination of etiology. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Ferguson, M., Ritter, J., DiNitto, D., Kim, J., & Schwab, J. (2005). Mentoring as a strategy for welfare reform. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 12(2/3), 165-183. Simultaneously published as a book chapter in: C. Larrison & M. Sullivan (Eds.), The impact of welfare reform: Balancing safety nets and behavior modification. Binghamton, NY: Hawthorne Press.

Selected Presentations:

Kim, J. & Fram, M. Characteristics of parents’ child care choice: Latent class analysis. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Choi, N. & Kim, J. Mistreatment of vulnerable older adults: Re-examination of poverty as its etiology. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Kim, J. Intergenerational transmission of child abuse: A comparative study. Society for Social Work Research, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

Kim, J. Neighborhood effect on child maltreatment: A multilevel study. Add Health User’s Workshop, Bethesda, MD, 2004.

Ferguson, M., Kim, J., & DiNitto, D. Marriage, welfare use, and economic hardship: The potential impact of marriage proposals in TANF reauthorization. Social Welfare Policy Conference, Charleston, SC, 2003.

Ferguson, M. Busch, N., & Kim, J. Violence and welfare use among young mothers. Trapped By Poverty/Trapped By Abuse, Austin, TX, 2003.

Jung, S. & Kim, J. Risk Factors for School Suspension and Expulsion: An Ecological Approach Ethnic Groups. Council on Social Work Education, New York, NY, 2005.

Jung, S. & Kim, J. Risk factors for school suspension/expulsion: an ecological approach for whites, blacks, and Hispanics. American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, 2005.

Professional Training:

Mplus workshop: Statistical analysis with latent variables using Mplus - Day 1-2 out of 8-day full program (March 18-19, 2008). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Mplus workshop: Statistical analysis with latent variables using Mplus - Day 6-8 out of 8-day full program (August 20-22, 2007). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research: Social and Economic Context of Child Care (August 6-9, 2007). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (National level competition based participation; Funded by the Child Care & Early Education Research Connections)

National Data Archive of Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) Summer Research Institute (May 31-June 3, 2007). Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. (National level competition based participation; Minority Scholarship awarded to support travel cost; Funded by the NDACAN)

National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Data Users Workshop (July 28-29, 2003). NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD. (Funded by National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD))

National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Data Users Workshop (July 20-21, 2004). NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD. (Funded by National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD))

Service:

Honors and Awards:

- Diversity Fellowship, National Data Archive of Child Abuse & Neglect (NDACAN) Summer Research Institute (2007). Ithaca, NY.

- Minority Graduate Student Scholarship, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Data Users Workshop (2004). NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD. (Funded by National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD))

- (Nominee) University of Texas Outstanding Dissertation Awards (2005). University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

- Martha S. Williams Endowed Presidential Scholarship (2001). Doctoral student fellowship. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

- School of Natural Science Honorary Scholarship (1987-1989). School of Natural Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Links:

Curriculum Vitae (in Adobe Acrobat)