Current PhD Students

JeongJin Kim

Person-situation interaction, situational strength, job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, counterproductive work behavior, employee well-being, job boredom, within-person research, disabilities in organization, and neurodiversity at work

JeongJin Kim is a Ph.D. alumnus in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at George Mason University. JeongJin received his B.A. in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and M.A. in Psychology with a concentration in I-O Psychology at Yonsei University.

JeongJin had a variety of professional experiences prior to joining Mason. He served in the Republic of Korea Army as a guard post reconnaissance intelligence operator in the demilitarized zone. After his time at Yonsei, he worked as a business analyst at a consulting firm located in Seoul, South Korea, and just before joining the I-O Ph.D. program at Mason, he worked as a manager overseeing COVID-19 testing kit production line workers at a manufacturer of in vitro diagnostic products.

JeongJin's research is centered around three main areas: (1) understanding person-situation interactions and their impact on employee performance and well-being, (2) examining within-person dynamics of personality, affect and attitudes, and job performance, and (3) exploring the work experiences of persons with disabilities (e.g., neurodivergent individuals), especially challenges experienced in the workplace.

Selected Publications

Kim, J. J., Kaplan, S. A., Aitken, J. A., & Ponce, L. P. (2025). An examination of the daily relationship between job boredom and later burnout and turnover intentions along with mitigating strategies. Current Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07788-x

Zhu, Z., Aitken, J. A., Kim, J. J., Baines, J. I., Kaplan, S. A., Dalal, R. S., & Hassani, J. (2025). The emotion regulation intervention in the workplace: An ecological momentary approach and its impact on employee job performance. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joop.70020

Kim, J. J., Kaplan, S. A., Aitken, J. A., & Ponce, L. P. (2024). Within-person dynamics of job boredom and counterproductive work behavior: A latent change score modeling approach. Affective Science, 5, 273–279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00256-y

Kim, J. J., Son, M., & Dalal, R. S. (2024). Situational strength. Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. New York:
Oxford University Press, [Launch Date: October 24, 2024]. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199828340-0327

Park, J., Woo, S. E., & Kim, J. J. (2024). Attitudes toward artificial intelligence application at work: Scale development and validation. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 97(3), 920–951. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12502

Kim, J. J., Park, J., Sohn, Y. W., & Lim, J. I. (2021). Perceived overqualification, boredom, and extra-role behaviors: Testing a moderated mediation model. Journal of Career Development, 48(4), 400–414. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845319853879

Shin, S. M., Song Y. S., Kim, J. J., & Oh, J. S. (2018). The relationship between impulsiveness and smartphone addiction among adolescents: Focused on the possible application of delay discounting task. The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 23(2), 345–363. https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2018.23.2.003

Grants and Fellowships

Success via a Human-Assistive Wearable Technology Partnership Fostering Neurodiverse Individuals' Work Success via an Assistive Wearable Technology (Award #2326270). National Science Foundation (January 2024 – May 2025). PI: Vivian G. Motti. Co-PI: Sarah M. Wittman. Role: Graduate Research Assistant

Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Emotion Regulation (Award #2052190). National Science Foundation (June 2021 – August 2023). PI: Reeshad S. Dalal. Co-PI: Seth A. Kaplan. Role: Graduate Research Assistant

Courses Taught

PSYC 642: General Linear Modeling I (Lab)

MGMT 313: Organizational Behavior

PSYC 301: Research Methods in Psychology (Lab)

PSYC 300: Statistics in Psychology (Lab)

Education

M.A. in Psychology (with a concentration in Industrial-Organizational Psychology) | Yonsei University

B.A. in Psychology | University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recent Presentations

Kim, J. J. (Co-Chair), Dalal, R. S. (Co-Chair), & Green, J. P. (Discussant). (2025, April 2–5). Decoding work situations: The nomological network of situational content and strength [Symposium]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2025 Conference, Denver, CO, USA.

Son, M., Kim, J. J., Sohn, J., Nguyen, L. K., Maguire, L., & Dalal, R. S. (2025, April 2–5). Connecting the dots: Reviewing the current status of situational strength theory and its disconnection from situation content [Symposium]. In Kim, J. J. (Co-Chair), Dalal, R. S. (Co-Chair), & Green, J. P. (Discussant), Decoding work situations: The nomological network of situational content and strength. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2025 Conference, Denver, CO, USA.

Kalantari, N., Kim, J. J., Wittman, S., & Motti, V. G. (2025, April 2–5). Exploring neurodivergent individuals’ workplace challenges and strategies through AI-assisted analysis [Symposium]. In Ponce, L. P. (Co-Chair), Mintz, R. M. (Co-Chair), & Wittman, S. (Co-Chair), Understanding neurodiversity in the workplace: Perceptions, intersectionality, and interventions. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2025 Conference, Denver, CO, USA.

Kalantari, N., Kim, J. J., Wittman, S. M., & Motti, V. G. (2024, May 30–31). Bridging human insight and AI: A comparative study of neurodivergent workplace experiences through large language models and manual coding [Symposium]. Neurodiversity at Work Research Conference 2024, College Park, MD, USA.

Kalantari, N., Kim, J. J., Wittman, S. M., & Motti, V. G. (2024, May 30–31). Including neurodivergent voices through probing interviews: A methodological approach to enhance hiring practices [Paper]. Neurodiversity at Work Research Conference 2024, College Park, MD, USA.

Kim, J. J., & Kaplan, S. A. (2024, April 17–20). Within-person changes in job boredom and counterproductive work behavior [Symposium]. In Bowling, N. A. (Co-Chair) & Dye, K. (Co-Chair), Measurement, causes, and consequences of job boredom. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2024 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Park, J., Woo, S.E., & Kim, J. J. (2024, April 17–20). A multidimensional measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence applications at work [Symposium]. In Samo, A. (Chair) & Jayatilleke, B. (Discussant), Human-centered, ethical, and responsible artificial intelligence (HCER-AI) at work: Insights from psychological research. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2024 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Kim, J. J., Aitken, J. A., Baines, J. I., Zhu, Z., Hassani, J., Dalal, R. S., & Kaplan, S. A. (2024, April 17–20). Good versus bad situational strength? Within-person effects on affect and performance [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2024 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Aitken, J. A., Kim, J. J., Baines, J. I., Zhu, Z., Hassani, J., Dalal, R. S., & Kaplan, S. A. (2024, April 17–20). A moral perspective on the self-regulation of counterproductive work behavior [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2024 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Aitken, J. A., Baines, J. I., Wonders, M. E., Kaplan, S. A., Clark, J. E., & Kim, J. J. (2024, April 17–20). A meta-analysis of the within-person relationship between affect and job performance [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2024 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Zhu, Z., Aitken, J. A., Kim, J. J., Baines, J. I., Kaplan, S. A., Dalal, R. S., & Hassani, J. (2024, April 17–20). Ecological momentary emotion regulation intervention in the workplace [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2024 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

Niloofar, J., Kim, J. J., Wittman, S. M., & Motti, V. G. (2024, March 18–19). Including neurodivergent voices through probing interviews: A methodological approach to enhance hiring practices [Poster]. Access to Research and Inclusive Excellence 2024 National Conference, Fairfax, VA, USA.

Park, J., Woo, S. E., Kim, J. J., & Kim, S. (2023, August 17-19). Attitudes toward artificial intelligence application at work: Scale development and validation [Symposium]. Korean Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2023 Conference, Suwon, South Korea.

Kim, J. J., Son, M., Baines, J. I., Bui, T. N., Tsai, H.-C., Aranda, N., Dalal, R. S., & Kaplan, S. A. (2023, April 19–22). Do tight cultures act as strong situations? A meta-analytic test [Poster, Top 10 Recognition]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2023 Conference, Boston, MA, USA.

Kim, J. J., Ponce, L., Aitken, J. A., Farrar, S., & Kaplan, S. (2023, April 19–22). Within-person dynamics of workplace boredom and its coping mechanisms [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2023 Conference, Boston, MA, USA.

Aitken, J. A., Kim, J. J., Ponce, L., Farrar, S., Kaplan, S., & Merlo, K. (2023, April 19–22). Delineating the performance consequences of affective states versus emotion episodes [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2023 Conference, Boston, MA, USA.

Ponce, L. P., Aitken, J. A., Kim, J. J., Farrar, S., & Kaplan, S. A. (2023, April 19–22). The incremental advantage of personality facets in predicting state work engagement [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2023 Conference, Boston, MA, USA.

Ponce, L. P., Aitken, J. A., Kim, J. J., Kim, H., Farrar, S., & Kaplan, S. A. (2022, August 4–6). Who will make the cut? Comparing scale shortening techniques [Poster]. American Psychological Association 2022 Convention, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Aitken, J. A., Baines, J. I., Kim, J. J., Zhu, Z., Hassani, J., Kaplan, S. A., Dalal, R. S., Gibson, J. L., & Merlo, K. L. (2022, May 26–29). Just-in-time adaptive interventions for cognitive reappraisal: Improvements in workplace affect [Poster]. Association for Psychological Science 2022 Convention, Chicago, IL, USA.

Baines, J. I., Aitken, J. A., Kim, J. J., Hassani, J., Zhu, Z., Kaplan, S. A., & Dalal, R. S. (2022, May 26–29). The relationship between telework and counterproductive work behavior [Poster]. Association for Psychological Science 2022 Convention, Chicago, IL, USA.

Hecht, C. A., Kim, J. J., Harackiewicz, J. M. (2021, February 9–13). What’s good for you is good for me: The role of other-oriented utility value in interdependent students’ interest development [Poster]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2021 Convention (virtual).

In the Media

Association for Psychological Science. (2019, July 10). Dedication buffers employees against boredom, study suggests. LINK