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Pre-Conference Questions: Status of Research Process

In addition to bringing this sheet filled out, you also need to bring two of your secondary sources to our conference. You can bring hard copies or a tablet/laptop (but no phones) for digital format sources.

1. Explain your research topic as precisely as you can in 2-4 sentences. Include your two primary sources in your description.

My topic is about Asian American College students who are more likely to have suicidal thoughts compared to others and least likely to seek for help? On my primary sources "Everything I never told you" by Ng, Linda's character died at the very beginning of the story, her death remains questionable till the later part when police and media get involved and that her death was likely a suicide.My other primary source "Why are Asian American kids killing themselves" is about a commentary of Luke Tang's documentary "Looking for Luke" a Harvard sophomore who hang himself at dormitory. Both story was tragic but for any suicidal ideation there is always a reason and that's why I choose to explore this topic to further enhance my knowledge and illustrate that mental health issues cannot be ignored.

2. Write three of your central research questions.

1. Why Asian American College students killing themselves?

2. Why is it hard for them to seek mental health care or counseling?

3. How the stereotypes and discrimination of Asian American lead to mental health issues and stress?

3. Briefly explain the two secondary sources you brought. What are they saying? How do they fit within your research project? What kind of perspective do they give about your topic?

1. Tang and Masicampo believes that suicidal ideation for Asian American college students are linked to interpersonal issues like family struggles, culture adaptation and coping with racism that is intertwined between the feeling of hopelessness, loneliness and a sense of being a liability to others. They both gave me relative information about how a behavior can lead to suicidal ideation among Asian American students.

2. Kim and Omizo emphasizes on the concept of adherence to cultural values and their relation to stress, feeling of marginality and alienation and identity confusion. They examine the relations between Asian American college students adherence to Asian and European American cultural values in particular to coping with cultural differences. This article fit in my research topic because biculturalism is one of the reasons why Asian American students consider themselves as an outsider.

4. Tell me about how your research project is going. You can write as little or as much as you want. What are you anxious about at this point? How has your project changed since you started? What kind of difficulties have you encountered? How confident are you about making your argument?

At this moment I am still gathering some information to further justify and support the argument. Since I started researching about this topic, I become more knowledgeable about the mental health illness and even get certification as mental health first aider accredited by National Council for Mental Health. This topic made me realize that suicide is a serious problem in our society especially for young generations.

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