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Shintaro Kono
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, Univeristy of Alberta
Email: skono@ualberta.ca
Education Background
Time | School | Program and Degree |
2013-2017 | University of Alberta, Canada | Ph.D. – Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation |
2011-2012 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Ch mpaign | Master of Science – Recreation, Sport, & Tourism |
2007-2011 | Tokai University, Japan | Bachelor of Arts – Sport & Leisure Management |
Career Background
Time | Institution | Occupation |
2019-present | University of Alberta, Canada | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation |
2018-2019 | Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA | Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Recreation Professions |
Specialty/Research Interests
Leisure and subjective well-being, leisure education, leisure constraints, culture, mixed-methods, disaster
Recent Courses Taught
RLS 100 Life, Leisure, and the Pursuit of Happiness
RLS 223 Leisure and Human Behavior
RLS 331 Leisure Education
KSR 500 Concepts and Theories of Leisure and Recreation
Memberships and other Activities
l Director, Board of Directors, Canadian Association for Leisure Studies
l Member, The Academy of Leisure Sciences
Selected Recent Publications:
Forthcoming Kono, S., Nagata, S., Dattilo, J., & Cho, S.-J. Identifying leisure education topics for university student well-being: A Delphi study. Journal of Leisure Research.
Forthcoming Kono, S., Lee, C.-S., & Dattilo, J. An integrative review of leisure education research. Journal of Leisure Research.
In press Gui, J., Kono, S., He, Y., & Noels, K. Basic psychological needs satisfaction in leisure and academics of Chinese international students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Leisure Sciences.
In press Kono, S., Ito, E., & Gui, J. Leisure’s relationships with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in a daily life: An experience sampling approach. Leisure Sciences.
2023 Kono, S., & Sato, M. The potentials of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in leisure research. Journal of Leisure Research, 54(3). 309-329.
2023 Ito, E., Kono, S., & Gui, J. Psychological consequences of tourism ideal affect. Current Issues in Tourism, 26(3), 468-479.
2022 Kono, S., & Nagata, S. Understanding leisure’s impacts on sources of life worth living: A multi-domain approach. Leisure Studies, 41(3), 310-325.
