Hyekyung Choo, PhD

Hyekyung Choo is an Associate Professor of Social Work at National University of Singapore. Her research addresses children and adolescents’ digital media use and related disorders including Gaming Disorder (GD). In the past 20 years, she has conducted and published extensive longitudinal studies on GD and problematic use of digital media among youth as well as intervention research in Singapore. Currently, she is the Singapore site PI for a 12-country international project on media habits and social behaviors, and PI for a translational study developing a parenting needs assessment tool for interventions targeting adolescents’ GD and excessive digital media use.

Funding/Conflicts of Interest: On behalf of the research team, Dr. Hyekyung Choo reports a research grant from Singapore Inter-Ministry Cyber-Wellness Steering Committee during the conduct of the research to be presented. There is no other support from the Committee after research and any other institute or organization outside of the presented work. Patent issues and additional relationships are not applicable to this research project.