E-Mail    keekim@vt.edu

Mailing Address   317 Wallace Hall (0416)
                             Blacksburg, VA 24061

               Phone    540-231-4671

                   Fax    540-231-7012

     Office Hours    By appointment

       

Primary Academic Interests

• Child and adolescent developmental psychopathology
  
• Interlocking trajectories of externalizing and internalizing problems
  
• The evolution of criminal and antisocial behavior over the life course
  
• Research methods (e.g., structural equation modeling, latent growth curve modeling, hierarchical linear & nonlinear modeling, latent class modeling)

 

Professional Responsibilities

• Reviewer, Child Development

Selected Publications and Presentations

Kim, K. J., Conger, R. D., Elder, Jr., G. H., & Lorenz, F. O. (2003). Reciprocal influences between stressful life events and adolescent internalizing and
externalizing problems. Child Development, 74, 127-143.

Kim, K. J., Conger, R. D., Lorenz, F. O., & Elder, Jr., G. H. (2001). Parent-adolescent reciprocity in negative affect and its relation to early adult social development. Developmental Psychology, 37, 775-790.

Kim, K. J. (2001). Growth in depressive symptoms from early adolescence to early adulthood in single- and two-parent families. Paper presented at The Biennial
Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Kim, K. J., & Conger, R. D. (2000). The cross-generational transmission of negative emotion: A growth curve analysis. Paper presented at The Biennial Meeting of
the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Beijing, China.

Kim, K. J., & Lempers, J. (2000). The effects of reciprocity between harsh parenting and aggressive behavior on adolescents’ externalizing problem behavior. Paper
presented at The Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Beijing, China.

Kim, K. J. (1998). Stability and changes in loneliness among older adults. Invited presentation at the Workshop in the Heidelberg Series on Longitudinal Research
in Adulthood: Methodological Aspects of Longitudinal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Kim, K. J., Martin, P., Poon, L. W., & Johnson, M. A. (1998). Loneliness among sexagenarians, octogenarians, and centenarians: A longitudinal study. Paper
presented at The Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Berne, Switzerland.

 

Memberships in Professional Organizations

• American Psychological Association (Division 7: Developmental Psychology)
  
• International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
  
• Society for Research in Child Development

 

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