Jingjing Gui
Assistant Teaching Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, Univeristy of Alberta
Email: jgui@ualberta.ca
Education Background
Time | School | Program and Degree |
2014-2019 | University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada | PhD in Recreation and Leisure Studies |
2011-2014 | Peking University, Beijing, China | Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning |
2007-2011 | Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China | Bachelor of Arts in Tourism Management |
Career Background
Time | Institution | Occupation |
2023-present | Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta | Assistant Teaching Professor |
2020-2022 | Department of Psychology, University of Alberta | Postdoctoral Fellow |
Specialty/Research Interests
Leisure meanings, self-determination theory, subjective well-being, affect, acculturation
Recent Courses Taught
Leisure and Human Behavior
Statistics, Measurement, and Evaluation
Professional Membership
· Member of the Academy of Leisure Sciences
· Member of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies
· Member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Select Publications:
Gui, J., Harshaw, H. W., Walker, G. J, & Liu, H. (in press). Culture, leisure interpretation, and ideal affect during leisure: A situation sampling approach. Leisure Sciences, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2020.1836535
Gui, J.*, Kono, S.*, He, Y., & Noels, K. (in press). Basic psychological need satisfaction in leisure and academics of Chinese international students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Leisure Sciences, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2023.2167027
Gui, J., Walker, G. J., & Harshaw, H. W. (2022). Meanings of xiū xián and leisure: Cross-cultural exploration of laypeople’s definition of leisure. Leisure Sciences, 44(3), 366-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2019.1571968
Gui, J.*, Kono, S.*, & Walker, G. J. (2021). How do work and leisure contribute to Hong Kong Chinese’ life satisfaction? Journal of Leisure Research, 52(4), 325-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2020.1855488
Gui, J., Harshaw, H. W., & Chai, Y. (2021). Temporal and spatial constraints to daily out-of-home leisure in urban China: A GPS-based time diary survey. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 4(2), 79-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41978-020-00072-1
* The co-authors contributed equally to this article
For a complete list of publications, visit Jingjing’s Google Scholar page and ORCID.