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Academic appointments, education, publications, grants, teaching, and professional service.

Contact Information

Name Pildoo Sung
Email pildoosung@hanyang.ac.kr
Website https://pildoo.github.io

Academic Position

Education

  • -

    Singapore

    PhD
    National University of Singapore
    Sociology
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    Seoul, South Korea

    MA
    Korea University
    Sociology
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    Seoul, South Korea

    BA
    Korea University
    Sociology

Research Interests

Research: Social Capital, Social Participation, Social Isolation, Loneliness, Social Gerontology, Caregiving, Longitudinal Analysis

Publications

  • 2026
    Associating Multimorbidity Patterns with Healthcare Utilization and Unmet Healthcare Needs among Older Koreans Living Alone
  • 2026
    Lonely by Comparison: Understanding Loneliness Through Network Alter Status, Ego Status, and Regional Status

    Accepted

  • 2026
    Exploring Loneliness in Family Caregiver–Care Recipient Dyads: Implications for Caregiver Burden
  • 2026
    Oral Health-Related Quality of Life and Social Engagement: Gender Differences

    Online first

  • 2026
    Who Keeps on Learning? Understanding Heterogeneity in Resource Profiles of Older Learners to Promote Recurrent Engagement in Learning

    Accepted

  • 2026
    Stability and Changes in Social Network Profiles After Widowhood and Their Implications for Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in South Korea
  • 2026
    Getting Lonely and Isolated? Transitions in Social Isolation Profiles Over Time and Factors Associated with Them Among Older Adults
  • 2026
    Functional Limitations and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in Korea: Gender Differences in the Moderating Roles of Relationship Satisfaction with Family, Friends, and Neighbors
  • 2025
    Stress, Social Isolation Profiles, and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in a Low-Income Community in Singapore
  • 2025
    The Mediating Role of Formal Social Engagement in the Relationship Between Oral Health and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in South Korea
  • 2025
    Sharing in Caring: Family Caregiving Task-Sharing Patterns for Older Adults in Singapore
  • 2025
    Stress and Loneliness among Family Caregivers of Older Persons with Cognitive Impairment: The Mediating Role of Social Isolation and the Moderating Role of Personal Mastery
  • 2024
    A Reciprocal Relationship between Formal and Informal Social Engagement and Handgrip Strength of Older Adults in South Korea
  • 2024
    The Relationship among Generalized Trust, Social Networks, and Social Resources across 30 Countries
  • 2024
    Informal Caregiver Social Network Types and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience
  • 2024
    Trajectories of Adherence to a Falls Prevention Exercise Intervention in Singapore: A Mixed Methods Study
  • 2024
    Feeling Alone Together: Loneliness in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment and Their Family Caregivers with Low Mastery
  • 2024
    Engagement in Physical Activity and Quality of Life Among Informal Caregivers of Older Adults
  • 2023
    Older Adult Patient Preferences for the Content and Format of Prescription Medication Labels — A Best-worst Scaling and Discrete Choice Experiment Study
  • 2023
    Health Profiles among Community Dwelling Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment and Their Implications for Caregiving Experience
  • 2023
    Reciprocal Relationship Between Lifelong Learning and Volunteering
  • 2023
    Lonely in a Crowd: Social Isolation Profiles and Caregiver Burden Among Family Caregivers of Community-dwelling Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
  • 2023
    The Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Engagement and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults in South Korea
  • 2023
    Does a Reciprocal Relationship Exist between Social Engagement and Depression in Later Life?
  • 2022
    Met and Unmet Needs of Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment, and Burden and Benefits of Their Family Caregivers
  • 2022
    Care Needs Profiles and Their Association with Caregiver Strain among Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
  • 2022
    The Negative Impact of Adult Children's Marital Dissolution on Older Parents' Mental Health in South Korea
  • 2022
    Transitions between social network profiles and their relation with all-cause mortality among older adults
  • 2022
    Transition in Social Network Types over Time among Older Adults
  • 2022
    Types of Caregiving Experience and Their Association with Caregiver Depressive Symptoms and Quality of Life
  • 2020
    In-Group Trust and Self-Rated Health in East Asia Using Quadri-National Survey Data
  • 2025
    Urban-rural Disparities in Social Network Profiles among Older Koreans at the Early Stage of the Pandemic
  • 2024
    The Latent Classes of the Volunteer Satisfaction Index and Donation during the Pandemic in Singapore
  • 2021
    Buffering Function
  • 2022
    Met and Unmet Needs of Community-dwelling Older Singaporeans with Cognitive Impairment
  • 2020
    Transitions in Health, Employment, Social Engagement and Intergenerational Transfers in Singapore Study (THE SIGNS Study) — II: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses of Key Aspects of Successful Ageing

Work in Progress

Conference Presentations

Invited Talks

Honors, Grants & Awards

  • New Researcher Grant (PI), National Research Foundation of Korea (2026–2029)
  • HYU International Collaboration Grant (PI), Hanyang University (2025–2026)
  • Start-up Grant, Hanyang University (2024)
  • Travel Award, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (2024)
  • Start-up Grant, Hong Kong Baptist University (2023)
  • Travel Award, Japanese Sociological Society (2022)
  • Research Scholarship, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore (2015–2019)
  • The Best Article Award, Korea University Graduate Studies (2015)
  • Research Scholarship, Korea University (2012–2014)

Teaching Experience

Professional Service

Journal Reviewer

Reviewer for: Aging & Mental Health, Aging and Health Research, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, BMC Geriatrics, BMC Public Health, Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, Demographic Research, Geriatrics & Gerontology International, Health & Place, Health and Social Science, Health Psychology, Innovation in Aging, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Journal of Aging and Health, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Public Society, Journal of the Korean Gerontological Society, Korea Journal of Population Studies, Korean Journal of Gerontological Social Welfare, Korean Journal of Sociology, Scientific Reports, Social Science Research, Sociology of Health & Illness, Survey Research, The Gerontologist, The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Professional Organization Membership

Member of: Gerontological Society of America, Hong Kong Sociological Association, International Alliance of Research Universities Aging Longevity and Health Early Career Researcher Network, International Sociological Association (RC55 Social Indicators), Korean Gerontological Association, Korean Sociological Association, Population Association of Singapore