2002 Ph.D. Developmental Psychology with specialization in quantitative research methods
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1994 M.A. Developmental Psychology, University of Yonsei, Seoul, South Korea
1992 B.A. Psychology, University of Yonsei, Seoul, South Korea

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Research Methods: Application of new analytical methods to research in psychology; development of new analytical methods; categorical data analysis

Substantive Research: Developmental psychopathology of behavior and affective problems: Biological, neuropsychological, psychosocial, and contextual factors;

Risk and protective factors and their mechanisms in developmental trajectories of children at risk;

Etiology of habitual smoking, and alcohol abuse/dependence

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

Mun, E. Y., von Eye, A., Fitzgerald, H. E., & Zucker, R. A. (2001). Using mosaic displays in Configural Frequency Analysis. Methods of Psychological Research-Online, 6(3), 164-196.

Mun, E. Y., Fitzgerald, H. E., Puttler, L. I., Zucker, R. A., & von Eye, A. (2001). Temperamental characteristics as predictors of externalizing and internalizing child behavior problems in the contexts of high and low parental psychopathology. Infant Mental Health Journal, 22(3), 393-415.

Fitzgerald, H. E., Puttler, L. I., Mun, E. Y., & Zucker, R. A. (2000). Prenatal and postnatal exposure to parental alcohol use and abuse. In J. D. Osofsky & H. E. Fitzgerald (Eds.), WAIMH Handbook of infant mental health: Vol. 4: Infant mental health in groups at high risk (pp. 123-160). New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Fitzgerald, H. E., Zucker, R. A., Puttler, L. I., Caplan, H. M., & Mun, E. Y. (2000). Alcohol abuse and dependence in women and girls. Alcoscope: International Review of Alcoholism Management, 3(1), 6-19.

TEACHING INTERESTS:

Elementary Statistical Methods and Design, Multivariate Statistics, Structural equation modeling (SEM)