research study on career choices and family

I recently heard from Xuhua Qin, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who his working on his dissertation examining how family impacts the career choices of Asian Americans. He's looking for Asian Americans who are willing to help him out and respond to an internet questionnaire. Here's the formal invitation letter:

You are invited to participate in a research project about family’s impact on Asian American students’ career decisions. The purpose of this project is to help career counselors better understand Asian American clients’ career behaviors and their struggles to make a career choice, so that career counselors can more effectively help Asian American clients. This project is under supervision of Prof. James Rounds (Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).

Anyone over age 18 who identifies him/herself as Asian American is welcomed to participate.

In this project, participants will be asked to complete an online questionnaire about their attitude towards different activities and about their experience interacting with parents surrounding these career and academic choices. Participants can fill out the questionnaire in any places that is accessible to internet and at any time of their choice. The estimated completion of the survey is approximately 40 minutes.

Participant’s responses will be kept completely confidential. No identifying information will be collected. Participation in this research is completely voluntary.

Any interested individual can learn more about the research and participate online at: http://www.zipsurvey.com/LaunchSurvey.aspx?suid=37076&key=A9712BC0

Please feel free to contact me at xuhua.qin09@gmail.com if you have any questions/concerns. Thank you so much for your interest! I really appreciate it.

Sincerely,
Xuhua Qin

Doctoral student of Counseling Psychology Division
Educational Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

I regularly receive a lot of similar requests from graduate students needing help with getting participants their research. I'm happy to do it, with the hope that continued studies like this will give us a better understanding of our community and what makes us tick. If you're interested in helping Xuhua out, fill out the questionnaire here.