Innovative Research Award
Sungwon Kim
Chongshin University, South Korea
Sungwon Kim is associated with Chongshin University in South Korea and is presented here in connection with the Innovative Research Award under the Engineering Scientist Awards programme. The supplied publication records describe research involving educational psychology, teacher professional development, technological stress, faith measurement, and the assessment of suffering. These publications provide a basis for examining the researcher’s scholarly contributions, while the relationship between these topics and the Data Science award category requires further verification. [1][5]
Abstract
This article presents an academic overview of Sungwon Kim using the affiliation, researcher identifier, award category, and five publication records supplied for the profile. The publications address measurement development, early childhood teacher performance, professional identity, resilience, and technology-related stress. They indicate a research portfolio concerned with educational and psychological constructs and their assessment. Although seven documents are reported in the supplied profile information, citation counts, h-index, and a verified Scopus author record have not been provided. Accordingly, the profile distinguishes documented publication information from research metrics and award-related assessments that require independent verification. [1][5]
Keywords
Sungwon Kim; Innovative Research Award; Engineering Scientist Awards; Chongshin University; South Korea; Data Science; educational research; early childhood education; teacher commitment; teacher performance; technostress; ego resilience; scale validation; psychometric measurement; scholarly publications.
Introduction
Academic recognition programmes provide a framework for reviewing research activity, scholarly publications, and contributions to a defined discipline. An assessment of an individual researcher should consider the relevance and quality of published work, methodological soundness, originality, research influence, and consistency between the documented research portfolio and the award category. In the present profile, the supplied publications focus primarily on educational and psychological research, including the development and validation of measurement instruments and investigations of early childhood teachers’ professional experiences. [1]_[5]
Research Profile
The supplied records associate Sungwon Kim with Chongshin University in South Korea and identify seven documents in the profile information. The five publication records listed for this article cover work published between 2019 and 2026. Their topics include scale development, teacher commitment, role performance, professional perceptions, technostress, and ego resilience. The ORCID identifier supplied for the researcher is 0000-0003-4123-5204. The identity-to-publication match should be checked against the publisher records and the researcher’s authoritative profile before the material is used for formal evaluation.
Research Contributions
The publication list suggests several connected areas of inquiry. One concerns the construction and validation of instruments for measuring complex human experiences, including faith among young children and Christian perceptions of suffering. Another examines early childhood teachers’ working lives, particularly the relationships between burnout, professional commitment, role performance, technostress, teaching efficacy, and psychological resilience. These topics require careful operational definitions, appropriate sampling, valid measurement procedures, and transparent statistical analysis. [1]_[5]
Publications
The five supplied journal articles cover measurement development and early childhood education research. Their publication metadata and DOI links provide starting points for examining the original studies. The titles indicate work on suffering-scale validation, teacher commitment and role performance, ego resilience and technostress, faith-scale validation, and teaching efficacy. The list is presented as supplied; authorship and attribution to Sungwon Kim should be confirmed against each publisher’s full record. [1]–[5]
- Development and Validation of the Christian Perception and Experience of Suffering Scale.
- The mediating effect of teacher commitment in the relationship between burnout and role performance of early childhood teachers.
Research Impact
The publication titles suggest potential relevance to researchers studying educational psychology, teacher well-being, psychological measurement, and the use of quantitative methods in education. The practical importance of these studies depends on their findings, the quality of their evidence, and whether subsequent research or professional settings use their methods and conclusions. Publisher records and independent citation databases should be consulted before drawing stronger conclusions. [1]–[5]
Award Suitability
The Innovative Research Award profile may be developed around the supplied publications’ focus on measurement development, educational research, and psychological factors affecting early childhood teachers. The titles indicate identifiable research questions and the use of structured approaches to studying human and professional experiences. However, the available information does not establish a confirmed nomination, selection, or award outcome. Eligibility and suitability should be assessed against the award programme’s published criteria and the original research evidence.
Conclusion
The supplied profile information associates Sungwon Kim with Chongshin University in South Korea and presents five journal publications on measurement development, educational psychology, teacher commitment, resilience, and technostress. These records provide a foundation for a structured academic profile, but verified bibliometric indicators and confirmation of authorship are needed for a comprehensive assessment. The proposed Innovative Research Award recognition should remain an evaluation context rather than a statement of confirmed achievement. Further review is particularly important before assigning the profile to the Data Science category.
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References
The following references reproduce the supplied publication metadata and DOI links. Full author lists, volume and issue details, page numbers, and researcher attribution should be checked against the publisher’s official records before formal publication. The Scopus author identifier was not supplied and is therefore not invented here.
- Publisher record supplied for the article “Development and Validation of the Christian Perception and Experience of Suffering Scale.”
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel17080922
- Publisher record supplied for the article “The mediating effect of teacher commitment in the relationship between burnout and role performance of early childhood teachers.”
https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1474838
- Publisher record supplied for the article “The Mediating Effects of Ego Resilience on the Relationship between Professionalism Perception and Technostress of Early Childhood Teachers.”
https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.20.4.13
- Publisher record supplied for the article “Development and Validation of a Faith Scale for Young Children.”
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030197
- Publisher record supplied for the article “The Moderating Effects of Ego-Resilience and Relationship with Colleague Teachers on the Association between the Effects of Technostress and Teaching Efficacy of Early Childhood Teachers.” Stress (2019).
https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2019.27.3.251