糖心传媒

Shintaro Kono is Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta. His research revolves around the relationship between leisure engagement and subjective well-being. Specifically, he is interested in answering: How does leisure engagement increase participants' subjective well-being and why? He also examines this issue from a cross-cultural and non-Western perspective, by bringing in non-Western/English concepts such as ikigai (life worth living in Japanese). In addition, Shintaro has studied predictors of quality leisure engagement such as leisure constraints and constraint negotiation. He also utilizes a wide range of both qualitative (e.g., grounded theory, photo-elicitation) and quantitative (e.g., experiments, structural equation modeling) methods to address the said topics. Recently, Shintaro has received federal research grants to develop and conduct digital leisure education interventions to enhance well-being and mental health of university students. He has also engaged community-based research to identify barriers to the pursuit of well-being and social integration faced by immigrant youths in rural communities. Through these projects, his research has engaged with equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in multiple ways.