· 教育背景:中山大学旅游管理硕士(1999), 宾州州立大学休闲、公园与旅游管理博士(2010)
· 工作经历:曾任教于深圳大学高尔夫学院、任职全球连通(Global Connections )项目协调人、美国科罗拉多州立大学旅游管理硕士项目国际协调人。2011年创办美国殷能研究咨询公司(Inno-Solution Research LLC)并任该公司首席咨询专家。
· 主要成就:参与多项政府及非盈利机构资助的大型研究课题。包括美国国家卫生研究院南非青少年健康与生活技能项目(HealthWise South Africa: Life Skills for Young Adults)、萨嘉基金会密尔沃基明智少年健康运动与饮食项目评估(Säjai® Foundation Wise Kids Milwaukee Evaluation)、美国阿勒格尼国家森林社会评估 (Social Assessment for the Allegheny National Forest)、人类野生动物价值取向全球研究(Wildlife Value Orientations Globally) 以及2013年中国国民休闲状况调查、珠海市旅游规划发展。
以近5-10年为主
Peer Reviewed Publications
Shen, X., Chick, G., & Zinn, H. (2014). Validating the Adult Playfulness Trait Scale (APTS): An Examination of the Personality, Behavioral, Attitudinal, and Perceptual Nomological Network of Playfulness. American Journal of Play, 6(3), 345-369.
Shen, X., Chick, G., & Zinn, H. (2014). Playfulness in adulthood as a personality trait: A reconceptualization and a new measurement. Journal of Leisure Research, 46(1), 58-83.
Houser, K. W., Wei, M., David, A., Krames, M. R., & Shen, X. (2013). Review of measures for light-source color rendition. Optics Express, 21(8), 10393-10411.
Chick, G., & Shen, X. (2011). Leisure and cultural complexity. Cross-cultural Research, 45, 59-81.
Shen, X., & Yarnal, C. (2010). Blowing open the serious leisure-casual leisure dichotomy: What’s in there? Leisure Sciences, 32 (2), 162-179.
Godbey, G., Crawford, D., & Shen, X. (2010). Assessing the constraints theory after two decades. Journal of Leisure Research, 42 (1), 111-134.
Zinn, H., & Shen, X. (2007). Wildlife Value Orientations in China. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 12, 331-338.
Su, B., Shen, X., & Zhou, W. (2006). Leisure life in later years: Differences between rural and urban elderly residents in China. Journal of Leisure Research, 38 (3), 381-397.
Peer Reviewed Oral Presentations
Shen, X., Zinn, H., & Chick, G. (2010). Beyond fun and frivolity: Measuring adult playfulness and its relationship with psychological wellbeing. The 11th World Leisure Congress (WLC). Chunchen, South Korea.
Shen, X., Chick, G., & Zinn, H. (2009). Playfulness in adulthood as a personality trait: A new measurement. 2009 National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Leisure Research Symposium (LRS). Salt lake City, UT, USA.
Shen, X., Godbey, G., & Crawford, D. (2009). A review of hierarchical leisure constraint research. 2009 National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Leisure Research Symposium (LRS). Salt lake City, UT, USA.
Shen, X., Zinn, H., & Chick, G. (2009). Assessing playful trait, behavior and situation: An interactionist framework of play intervention. American Therapeutic Recreation Association 2009 Annual Conference (ARTA). Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Chick, G., & Shen, X. (2009). Leisure and Cultural Complexity. The 108th American Anthropology Association (AAA) Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Shen, X., Godbey, G., & Crawford, D. (2009). Empirical leisure constraint research: Conceptual and measurement issues. The 21th Annual Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium (NERR21). Syracuse, NY, USA.
Shen, X., & Wang, W. S. (2009). Adult playfulness: Conception and scale development. The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) 35th Annual Meeting. Brownsville, TX, USA.
Shen, X., Zinn, H., & Chick, G. (2008). Constructing a new theoretical framework of playfulness: What is in order? The Twelfth Canadian Congress on Leisure Research (CCLR12). Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Godbey, G., Crawford, D., & Shen, X (2008). Assessing the constraints model after two decades. The Tenth World Leisure Congress (WLC10). Québec City, Canada.
Zinn, H., & Shen, X. (2008). Bases for acceptance of wildlife management actions: The case of mountain lions at the urban-wildland interface. Pathways to Success: Integrating Human Dimensions into Fisheries and Wildlife Management Conference (HDFW2008). Estes Park, Colorado, USA.
Shen, X., Zinn, H., & Chick, G. (2008). Adult playfulness as a personality trait: A new approach. The 20th Annual Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium (NERR20). Syracuse, New York, USA.
Shen, X., & Chick, G. (2007). Time allocation and cultural complexity: Leisure time use in twelve cultures. The 19th Annual Northeastern Recreation Research (NERR) Symposium. Syracuse, NY, USA.
Zinn, H.C., & Shen, X. (2007). Evaluations of national forest managers’ performance. Thirteenth International Symposium on Society & Resource Management, Park City, Utah, USA.
Shen, X., Hampton, R., & Yarnal, C. (2006). Red hatting: Play as seriously casual or casually serious? The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) 32nd Annual Meeting. St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Shen, X., Zinn, H., & Wang, Y. (2006). Assessing wildlife value orientations in China: An exploration of concepts and methods. The 18th Annual Northeastern Recreation research (NERR) Symposium. Syracuse, New York, USA.
Zinn, H.C., & Shen, X. (2006). Human responses to wildlife: Normative beliefs about wildlife and human learning. The Third International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas, Rapperswil, Switzerland.
Peer Reviewed Poster Presentation
Shen, X., & Zinn, H. (2009). Chinese wildlife value orientations: Rural-urban differences. The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB). Beijing, China.
Invited Speaker
Shen, X. (2012). Research design in social science: A review of important concepts and methods. Asian-Pacific Center for Leisure Studies Research Methodology Workshop, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Shen, X. (2011). Applying social science research methods and collecting data in China: Strategies for enhancing cultural sensitivity. China One Health: Human-Wildlife Health Resilience Strategies in a Global Change Context Workshop II. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Invited Panelist
Manfredo, M.J. (Panel Chair and Moderator), Teel, T., Gore, M., Zinn, H.C., Shen, X., Jacobs, M., Fulton, D.C. (2009). Human-wildlife conflict — Beyond biology. International Congress for Conservation Biology, Beijing, China.