Dr. Steven Krauss

Steven Krauss (@ Abd. Lateef), PhD, is a Professor with the Dept. of Professional Development and Continuing Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, and Head of the Youth and Community Well-Being Laboratory of the Institute for Social Science Studies (IPSAS) Universiti Putra Malaysia. He received his PhD in Youth Studies from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2005, his M.S. in Social Work from Columbia University (USA) in 1998, and his B.A. in Political Science/Economics from the University of Delaware (USA) in 1994. He joined the Faculty of Educational Studies, UPM, in 2006. He currently serves as the Chief Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Youth Studies (formerly the Malaysian Journal of Youth Studies), and is an Editorial Board member of Frontiers in Psychology, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Education Thinking. Dr. Krauss is also a member of the Qualitative Research Association Malaysia (QRAM), an Executive Board Member of the Asian Regional Association of Career Development (ARACD), and a member of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Covid-19 Research Initiatives Task Force.