Risk and Resilience Among Chinese and Other East Asian Youth

Inter-Generational Culture Gaps, Stress Coping and ATOD Risk and Resilience among Chinese and Other East Asians American (COEAA) Youth

We recruited Eastern Asian community researchers (high school students, college students, parents) from the community as equal research partners. Six weeks of intensive research skill training , collaborative research development workshop, and research implementation was carried out during summer of 2014. The training includes research ethics, literature review, theoretical modeling, qualitative data collection methods and skill building, interview guide development, participant recruitment, coding of interview transcriptions, data analysis and interpretation of data. To assure the greatest relevance of research to the target community, we work with our community researchers to refine the theoretical framework and develop specific hypotheses to be tested.