Jooyoung Kong

Jooyoung Kong, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work. Guided by the life-course perspective, her research focuses on the effects that adverse childhood experiences have on later-life outcomes, including health, intergenerational caregiving, and elder abuse victimization. Her work involves quantitative analyses of large-scale longitudinal surveys, such as the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS).