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Academic appointments, education, publications, grants, teaching, and professional service.
Contact Information
| Name | Pildoo Sung |
| pildoosung@hanyang.ac.kr | |
| Website | https://pildoo.github.io |
Academic Position
Education
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- 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
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2026 Associating Multimorbidity Patterns with Healthcare Utilization and Unmet Healthcare Needs among Older Koreans Living Alone
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2026 Lonely by Comparison: Understanding Loneliness Through Network Alter Status, Ego Status, and Regional Status
Accepted
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2026 Exploring Loneliness in Family Caregiver–Care Recipient Dyads: Implications for Caregiver Burden
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2026 Oral Health-Related Quality of Life and Social Engagement: Gender Differences
Online first
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2026 Who Keeps on Learning? Understanding Heterogeneity in Resource Profiles of Older Learners to Promote Recurrent Engagement in Learning
Accepted
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2026 Stability and Changes in Social Network Profiles After Widowhood and Their Implications for Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in South Korea
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2026 Getting Lonely and Isolated? Transitions in Social Isolation Profiles Over Time and Factors Associated with Them Among Older Adults
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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
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2025 Stress, Social Isolation Profiles, and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in a Low-Income Community in Singapore
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2025 The Mediating Role of Formal Social Engagement in the Relationship Between Oral Health and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in South Korea
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2025 Sharing in Caring: Family Caregiving Task-Sharing Patterns for Older Adults in Singapore
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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
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2024 A Reciprocal Relationship between Formal and Informal Social Engagement and Handgrip Strength of Older Adults in South Korea
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2024 The Relationship among Generalized Trust, Social Networks, and Social Resources across 30 Countries
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2024 Informal Caregiver Social Network Types and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience
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2024 Trajectories of Adherence to a Falls Prevention Exercise Intervention in Singapore: A Mixed Methods Study
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2024 Feeling Alone Together: Loneliness in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment and Their Family Caregivers with Low Mastery
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2024 Engagement in Physical Activity and Quality of Life Among Informal Caregivers of Older Adults
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2023 Older Adult Patient Preferences for the Content and Format of Prescription Medication Labels — A Best-worst Scaling and Discrete Choice Experiment Study
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2023 Health Profiles among Community Dwelling Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment and Their Implications for Caregiving Experience
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2023 Reciprocal Relationship Between Lifelong Learning and Volunteering
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2023 Lonely in a Crowd: Social Isolation Profiles and Caregiver Burden Among Family Caregivers of Community-dwelling Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
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2023 The Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Engagement and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults in South Korea
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2023 Does a Reciprocal Relationship Exist between Social Engagement and Depression in Later Life?
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2022 Met and Unmet Needs of Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment, and Burden and Benefits of Their Family Caregivers
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2022 Care Needs Profiles and Their Association with Caregiver Strain among Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
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2022 The Negative Impact of Adult Children's Marital Dissolution on Older Parents' Mental Health in South Korea
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2022 Transitions between social network profiles and their relation with all-cause mortality among older adults
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2022 Transition in Social Network Types over Time among Older Adults
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2022 Types of Caregiving Experience and Their Association with Caregiver Depressive Symptoms and Quality of Life
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2020 In-Group Trust and Self-Rated Health in East Asia Using Quadri-National Survey Data
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2025 Urban-rural Disparities in Social Network Profiles among Older Koreans at the Early Stage of the Pandemic
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2024 The Latent Classes of the Volunteer Satisfaction Index and Donation during the Pandemic in Singapore
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2021 Buffering Function
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2022 Met and Unmet Needs of Community-dwelling Older Singaporeans with Cognitive Impairment
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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