Research Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, Hong Kong, PR China.

Xiaoqin Zhu, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, PRC. She received her PhD degree in Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in the areas of child and adolescent development and leadership education, such as parent-child relationship, adolescent risk behavior, positive youth development program and its evaluation, service leadership education and evaluation. Her work appears in Journal of Happiness Studies, Children and Youth Services Review, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Research on Social Work Practice, Risk Analysis, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and also book chapters about positive youth development and service leadership. Email: xiaoqin.zhu@polyu.edu.hk.