Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Dr. Hyunkag Cho is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. His research has focused on intimate partner violence (IPV), with a specific emphasis on help seeking behaviors among IPV victims, including immigrants. Included in his research topics are victims’ perception of IPV, interpersonal and sociocultural factors affecting victims’ help seeking, and the process of victims’ selecting a source of help. Rigorous data collection from ethnic minority communities and collaboration with culturally competent scholars are emphasized through his research. He is currently involved in two projects, examining (1) how the patterns of IPV victimization by multiple perpetrators affect survivors’ health and subsequent help-seeking behaviors, and (2) how the short-, mid-, and long-term effects of adverse childhood experiences are affected by bystander interventions, and how they are related to IPV victimization and perpetration at later life stages. He has often utilized national datasets in his research, including National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, National Crime Victimization Survey, and Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiological Survey.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Domestic and Family Violence

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Limited English proficiency victims, Men and boys of color, Immigrants and refugees

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Quantitative studies

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Quantitative studies