Person-situation interface (situational strength, person-environment fit), job performance, boredom at work, within-person research, cross-cultural research, and calling
JeongJin Kim is a third year doctoral student in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program at George Mason University, working with Dr. Reeshad S. Dalal (primary advisor) and Dr. Seth A. Kaplan (secondary advisor). JeongJin received his B.A. in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).
JeongJin has a diverse range of professional experience. Prior to joining Mason, he served in the Republic of Korean Army as a Guard Post Command and Control Center Agent. During his military service, JeongJin operated as a reconnaissance telecommunication agent in the demilitarized zone. He also worked as a business analyst at a local consulting firm in Seoul, South Korea. Just before starting the I-O PhD program at Mason, he worked as a manager for a COVID-19 testing kit production line at a Korean medical company.
JeongJin is interested in person-situation interface (situational strength, person-environment fit), job performance, boredom at work, within-person research, cross-cultural research, calling, etc.
Kim, 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., & 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.
PSYC 300: Statistics in Psychology (Lab)
PSYC 301: Research Methods in Psychology (Lab)
M.A. in Psychology (with a concentration in Industrial-Organizational Psychology) | George Mason University (2022)
M.A. in Psychology (with a concentration in Industrial-Organizational Psychology) | Yonsei University (2019)
B.A. in Psychology | University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016)
Kim, 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]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2023 Conference, Boston, MA, USA [Identified as among the top 10 posters].
Kim, 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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).
Kim, J., Lim, J. I., & Sohn, Y. W. (2019, March 7–9). Perceived overqualification, job boredom, and counterproductive work behavior: A moderating role of meaning in life [Poster]. International Convention of Psychological Science 2019 Convention, Paris, France.
Kim, J., Park, S. Y., Koo, R. H., & Sohn, Y. W. (2018, May 24–27). The relations of work identity with job satisfaction and life satisfaction: A moderating role of family identity [Poster]. Association for Psychological Science 2018 Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Kim, J., Min, J. H., Piao, M., & Sohn, Y. W. (2018, May 19). The relationship between occupational self-efficacy and organizational citizenship behavior: A moderating role of perceived overqualification [Poster]. Korean Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2018 Spring Convention, Cheonan, South Korea.
Shin, S. M., Song, Y. S., Kim, J., & Kim, T. J. (2017, August 3–6). The relationship between smartphone addiction and impulsiveness: Focused on delay discounting [Poster]. American Psychological Association 2017 Convention, Washington, DC, USA.
Hecht, C. A., Kim, J., Tibbetts, Y., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2017, April 27–May 1). Finding value for the self versus close others: Implications for culturally-tailored utility-value interventions [Symposium]. In the Developments in Expectancy Value Intervention Research symposium, American Educational Research Association 2017 Convention, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Hecht, C. A., Kim, J., Tibbetts, Y., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2017, January 19–21). Finding value for the self versus close others: Implications for culturally-tailored utility-value interventions [Poster]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2017 Convention, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Association for Psychological Science. (2019, July 10). Dedication buffers employees against boredom, study suggests. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/dedication-buffers-employees-against-boredom-study-suggests.html?utm_source=APS+Emails&utm_campaign=762210dd83-PSU_071919&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d2c7283f04-762210dd83-62631799