Woosang Hwang, Ph.D.
Email: woosang.hwang@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-1794
Office: 303D
Currently accepting graduate students for Fall 2024
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Research Focus:
My research focuses on the role of intergenerational relationships on individual and familial health and well-being in adulthood. I am incorporating technology (e.g. digital communication and mobile applications) and counseling interventions into current research to promote the health and well-being of diverse families. The ongoing research projects include (1) assessing older parents' cognitive decline using a mobile application and examining its impact on the relational and health outcomes among family members, (2) developing a smartphone platform counseling intervention program to reduce family stress and conflict caused by older parents' cognitive and health decline, (3) investigating the transmission of family and social values across generations and its relations with intergenerational support, and (4) examining the impacts of helicopter parenting on young adult children's lives.
Areas of Expertise:
- Technology and family
- Intergenerational and digital solidarity
- Life course transitions in adulthood (e.g., employment, marriage, childbirth, and caregiving)
- Family/social values and generation gap
- Helicopter parenting
- Family policy: low fertility and work-family issues
Representative Grants
Texas Tech University Health and Wellness Research Seed Grant (Funded: $10,000, 4/1/24
- 3/31/25). Title: Developing a mobile-based acceptance and commitment therapy program
for dementia family caregivers. Role: Principle Investigator
NCFR Olson Grant (Funded: $10,000, 12/1/23 – 11/30/24). Title: Stability and change
of intergenerational solidarity with digital communication during and after the COVID-19
pandemic in South Korea: Associations with family functioning. Role: Principal Investigator.
Academy of Korean Studies Grant (Funded: $21,000, 2/1/22 – 1/31/23). Title: Intergenerational solidarity with digital communication among Korean adult children and older parents: Association with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Role: Principal Investigator.
The Retirement Research Foundation Grant (Funded: $176,000, 1/1/21 – 6/30/23). Title: Developing an instrument to assess intergenerational digital communication by older adults: Expanding the solidarity model. Role: Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator: Dr. Merril Silverstein).
Representative Publications
*Denotes a graduate student co-author
Hwang, W., Hadi, N.*, Brown, M. T., & Silverstein, M. (2024). Intergenerational and digital
solidarity: Associations with depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Marriage and Family. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12968
Hwang, W. (2024).Transition patterns of intergenerational solidarity abd digital communication
during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea: Association with older parents'
cognative decline. Applied Research in Quality of Life. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-024-10284-2
Hwang, W., Min, J., Brown, M. T., & Silverstein, M. (2023). Intergenerational solidarity and digital communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea: Implications for dyadic well-being. Family Process. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12928
Hwang, W., Fu, X.*, Brown, M. T., & Silverstein, M. (2023). Intergenerational solidarity with digital communication among older parents and their psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Family Process. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12910
Hwang, W., Kim, J.*, Brown, M, T., & Silverstein, M. (2023). Do religious transitions from early to established adulthood predict filial elder-care norms? Journal of Marriage and Family, 85(1), 173-192. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12833
Hwang, W., Fu, X.*, Brown, M, T., & Silverstein, M. (2022). Intergenerational solidarity with grandparents in emerging adulthood: Associations with providing support to older parents in established adulthood. Journal of Family Nursing. 28(4), 408-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/10748407221122873
Hwang, W., Kim, J.*, Brown, M, T., & Silverstein, M. (2022). Are filial elder-care norms related to intergenerational solidarity with older parents? A typological-developmental approach. Journal of Family Psychology, 36(4), 585-596. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000920
Hwang, W., Jung, E., Fu, X.*, Zhang, Y., Ko, K., Lee, S., Lee, Y., Lee, S., You, H., & Kang, Y. (2022). Typologies of helicopter parenting and American and Chinese young-adults' game and social media addictive behaviors. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31, 1030-1044. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-02213-w
Hwang, W., & Jung, E. (2022). Helicopter parenting versus autonomy supportive parenting? A latent class analysis of parenting among college students and their psychological and relational well-being. Emerging Adulthood, 10(3), 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968211000498
Hwang, W., Yoon, J.*, Brown, M, T., & Silverstein, M. (2021). A multidimensional typology of religiosity in three generation families. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000431
Hwang, W. (2021). Dual-income couples' gender role attitudes, paid leave use, and second-birth intentions. Families in Society, 102(2), 212-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/1044389420923480
Hwang, W., Jung, E., Shaw, A., Mestad, R., & Lane, S. (2021). Paid leave and maternal depressive symptoms after childbirth: The moderating role of perceived fairness of the division of household labor. Families in Society, 102(2), 225-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/1044389420913124
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