Se-Kang Kim, Ph.D. - Fordham University Psychology Department

Se-Kang Kim, Ph.D.
Assosicate Professor and Program Director, Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology Program Department of Psychology Dealy 320 441 East Fordham Road Bronx, NY 10458-9993 Phone: (718) 817 - 3792 Email: sekim@fordham.edu	Office Hours: Mon 10-11:30, Thurs 1-2:30, and right after class or by Appt

Research | Courses | Publications

Major Research Interests

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My recent research is on Profile Analysis. Specifically, I am interested in conducting Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (shortly PAMS). PAMS is aimed to identify latent profile patterns in a population and then interpret each individual in a population in terms of latent profile patterns. For the interpretation, PAMS estimates matching statistics between each individual’s observed score profile (that is in fact an array of subtest scores in a given test) and the identified latent profiles. The matching statistics inform us how much the pattern of the observed score profile is similar to the latent profile patterns. Each individual is assigned the same number of matching statistics as the number of latent profiles. Assuming two latent profiles identified and the first profile labeled, say, as Verbal Skills and the second one, say, as Quantitative Skills, if a person has a substantial weight on the first latent profile, but a trivial weight on the other latent profile, then the pattern of the person’s profile will be similar to that of the first latent profile and we interpret the person who is strong for Verbal Skills, rather than other skills, such as Quantitative. However, another person has a substantial weight on the second latent profile, but a trivial weight on the first profile, then the profile pattern of the person will be similar to the second latent profile pattern and we consider that person who is strong for Quantitative Skills over other skills, such as Verbal. However, if some one has substantial weights on both latent profiles, then we expect that the person like this is strong for both Verbal and Quantitative Skills. PAMS is originally designed for exploratory analysis, but it can be applied to confirmatory approach (utilizing Structural Equation Modeling) and longitudinal analyses. In the context of profile analysis, I am also interested in Nishisato’s Dual Scaling and Ramsay’s Functional Data Analysis. Someone who is interested in the PAMS research may request papers via e-mail: sekim@fordham.edu or may download them from my electronic reprints page.

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PSYC 7802 - Regression Analysis PSYC 7806 - Multidimensional Scaling PSYC 2000 - Statistics PSYC 2010 - Research Methods Laboratory

Selected Publications

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A complete listing of all of Dr. Kim's published works may be obtained by visiting DigitalResearch@fordham.edu.

Sosinsky, L.S. & Kim, S.-E. (2013). A profile approach to child care quality, quantity, and type of setting: Parent selection of infant child care arrangements. *Applied Developmental Science,17*(1), 39-56.
Kim, S.-K. (2012, Accepted). Decomposing Ordinary Factors into Between-Person and Within-Person Factor Effects To Understand Person Score Response Patterns. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.
Kim, D., & Kim, S.-K. (2012, Accepted). Comparison of Principal Component Analysis versus Independent Component Analysis in Analyzing Multivariate Non-Normal Data. Behavior Research Methods.
Kim, S.-K. (2011). Multidimensional Nonlinear Descriptive Analysis by Shizuhiko Nishisato: Book Review. Applied Psychological Measurement, 35, 410-412.
Kim, S.-K. (2010a). Evaluating the invariance of cognitive profile patterns derived from Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS): A bootstrapping approach. Journal of International Testing* (an official journal of International Test Commission), 10, 33–46.
Kim, S.-K. (2010b). Comparing longitudinal profile patterns of Mathematics and Reading in Early Child Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten (ECLS-K): The profile analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) approach. Asian Pacific Education Review, 11, 189–198.
Taylor, S., Coles, M.E., Abramowitz, J.S., Wu, K.D., Olatunji, B.O., Timpano, K.R., McKay, D.††, Kim, S.-K., Carmin, C., & Tolin, D.F. (2010). How are Dysfunctional Beliefs Related to Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms? Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 24(3), 165-176.
Davison, M. L., Kim, S.-K., & Close, C. (2009). Factor analytic modeling of within person variation in score profiles. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44(5), 668–687.
Carr, W.A., Glenwick, D.S., & Kim, S.-K. (2009). Patterns of consumer usage of homeless outreach services. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 18, 200–230.
Van Dyke, C. J., Glenwick, D. S., Cecero, J. J., & Kim, S.-K. (2009). The relationship of religious coping and spirituality to adjustment and psychological distress in urban early adolescents. Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 12(4), 369–383.
Frisby, C. L., & Kim, S.-K. (2008). Using Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) to identify core profiles from the WMS-III. Psychological Assessment, 20(1), 1–9.
Jeon, C.-H., Kim, D.-J., Kim, S.-K., Kim, DJ., Lee, H.-M., & Park, H.-J. (2006). Validation in the cross-cultural adaption of the Korean version of the Oswestry disability index. Journal of Korean Medical Science, 21, 1092–10927.
Kim, S-K., Davison M.L. and Frisby, C. L. (2007). Confirmatory factor analysis and profile analysis via multidimensional scaling.Multivariate Behavioral Research, 42(1), 1-32.
Kim, S-K., Frisby, C. L. and Davison M.L. (2004). Estimating cognitive profiles using profile analysis via multidimensional scaling (PAMS). Multivariate Behavioral Research, 39(4), 595-624.