Yoshitaka Iwasaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoshitaka Iwasaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoshitaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Iwasaki |
| SIGNATURE | IWASAKI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 379 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The other side of suicide loss: The potential role of leisure and meaning-making for suicide survivors
Suicide rates are on the rise and subsequently more people, also known as suicide survivors, are left to grieve these types of losses. Yet, there has been limited examination and understanding of how individuals living through such experiences can potentially cope with and grow from this type of loss. Meaning-making through and engagement in leisure activities has been identified as a potential resource that may help individuals make sense of the…
Literature-informed conceptual framework for meaning-focused leisure practice
Humans naturally seek the pursuit of a meaningful, enriching life. Based on the literature on the role of leisure in meaning-making, this paper provides a conceptual framework for using a meaning-focused leisure practice. This framework suggests that leisure can promote a meaningful engagement with one’s life through maintaining: (a) a joyful life, (b) a composed life, (c) a connected life, (d) a discovered life, and (e) a hopeful and empowered l…
Leisure, engagement, and meaning-making among high-risk youth
The purpose of this article is to explore the role of constructive leisure-like pursuits in meaningful engagement with life among young people at high risk in a variety of challenges in life. This data was based on reflective insights from youth leaders (n = 9) and community agency partners (n = 8) who have been involved in the authors’ collaborative youth engagement research project for the past few years. Their insights show that constructive l…
Contributions of leisure to “meaning-making” and its implications for leisure studies and services
This conceptual paper summarizes the current research-based knowledge about the role of leisure in meaning-making. The key themes of leisure-induced meaning-making include: (1) identity (personal and collective), (2) creativity (e.g. self-expression through creative leisure), (3) connectedness (socially, spiritually, and culturally; e.g. connections with people, religion, nature, and culture), (4) harmony/balance, (5) stress-coping and healing, (…
Role of leisure-generated meanings in adaptation to acculturation stress of Korean immigrants in Canada
This study tests the hypothesis that leisure-generated meanings would buffer acculturation stress on the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of Korean immigrants (n = 120) in a western Canadian city. Analyses of survey data show that acculturation stress is significantly associated with lower life satisfaction and self-esteem, poorer mental health, and sociocultural adaptation. The study only supports the main effects of leisure-generated …
The role of youth engagement in positive youth development and social justice youth development for high-risk, marginalised youth
This article describes reflective experiences documented by our youth leaders and community agency partners (n = 7 & 12, respectively) who have involved in our multi-year community-based research project. Overall, meaningful youth engagement facilitated by youth leadership was highlighted as a key mechanism for positive youth development (PYD) and social justice youth development (SJYD). First, the key PYD-related concepts identified include the …
Role of Leisure in Meaning-Making for Community-Dwelling Adults with Mental Illness: Inspiration for Engaged Life
This qualitative study intensively examined the role of leisure in meaning-making with 33 community-dwelling adults (18 females, 15 males; aged 24 to 78) from diverse cultural backgrounds (10 African Americans, 10 Caucasians, 9 Latinos, and 4 Asian Americans) with mental illness. Analyses of the interview data identified several key themes of meaning-making through leisure including the role of leisure in promoting (a) a joyful life, (b) a compos…
Promoting Identities and Mental Health via Cultural/Community Activities Among Racially/Ethnically Mixed Urban American Indians
This qualitative, focus group study explored the role of cultural/community activities in potentially promoting identities and mental health among urban American Indians who have mixed racial/ethnic heritages (e.g., African, Hispanic, and Caucasian) including those with mental illness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (n = 25). The study identified a variety of unique benefits of cultural/community activities including its role in nurturing identity,…
Leisure as a context for active living, recovery, health and life quality for persons with mental illness in a global context
Globally, the mental health system is being transformed into a strengths-based, recovery-oriented system of care, to which the concept of active living is central. Based on an integrative review of the literature, this paper presents a heuristic conceptual framework of the potential contribution that enjoyable and meaningful leisure experiences can have in active living, recovery, health and life quality among persons with mental illness. This fr…
Conceptualizing Meaning-Making through Leisure Experiences
There is a gap in knowledge concerning a full understanding of the meanings that people seek to obtain within or from leisure engagements. Understanding these meanings is a foundational knowledge in promoting, strengthening, and changing healthy leisure behavior in society, consequently the need to synthesize what is currently known and offer direction for research is necessary. This paper systematically explains the key meanings that people seek…
Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial/Ethnic Ancestries
The role of leisure pursuits in adaptation processes among Afghan refugees who have immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada
There is a gap in understanding the adaptation processes of minor, less established, immigrants, including the potential contribution of leisure pursuits to these processes. This study explored the role of leisure among Afghan refugees who have recently immigrated to a western Canadian city in adapting to their immigration processes. Using semi‐structured one‐on‐one interviews with 11 Afghan immigrant women and men aged from 19 to 60 years (inclu…
Leisure-Like Pursuits as an Expression of Aboriginal Cultural Strengths and Living Actions
An Aboriginal-guided decolonizing methodology is employed in this study to examine the leisure-like lived experiences of urban-dwelling Metis and First Nations women and men living with diabetes (N = 42) in Winnipeg, Canada. Directed by the Aboriginal knowledge and world views to ensure cultural sensitivity and relevance, this methodology served as foreground for the voices of the Aboriginal study participants into three key themes of leisure-lik…
Mapping nondominant voices into understanding stress‐coping mechanisms
This study reports key findings from a research project, which examined the stress and coping mechanisms of several nondominant groups of individuals. The groups were based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and included (a) Aboriginal individuals with diabetes, (b) individuals with disabilities, and (c) gays and lesbians. Our analyses of personal narratives and life stories have led to develop an interpretive map of findings that depicts mechanisms o…
Pathways to Meaning-Making Through Leisure-Like Pursuits in Global Contexts
This paper incorporates international and multicultural perspectives on meaning- making through leisure-like pursuits, by acknowledging voices of non-western people including Asians, Middle-Easterners, Indigenous persons, Africans, and South Americans, in addition to some dominant Euro-North American perspectives. Based on a literature review and content analysis and synthesis, major pathways linking leisurelike pursuits to meaning-making are ide…
Research Reflections Leisure Research in a Global World: Time to Reverse the Western Domination in Leisure Research
Despite the trend toward globalization, a gap in leisure research between west and east continues to exist. The noncritical use of western 1 (and ethnocentric) terminologies, including leisure in a
Family Caregivers of Individuals with Intellectual Disability: Perspectives on Life Quality and the Role of Vacations
Existing literature on quality of life (QOL) among individuals with intellectual disability and their families is largely etic in nature and, although leisure is often advanced as a core contributor, the role vacations play has not been directly examined. Drawn from phase one results of a larger, multi-year study, our purpose in this paper is to highlight the perspectives of family caregivers (i.e., biological and adoptive parents, and adult sibl…
Framework for Aboriginal-guided decolonizing research involving Métis and First Nations persons with diabetes
Leisure and quality of life in an international and multicultural context: What Are Major Pathways Linking Leisure to Quality of Life
Culturally Meaningful Leisure as a Way of Coping with Stress among Aboriginal Individuais with Diabetes
The purpose of this study was to gain insights into the lived experiences of urban Aboriginal Canadians with diabetes in stress and coping through leisure. A framework of resilience was used to conceptually ground the study and to analytically synthesize findings about the role of leisure in coping with stress. Focus groups were used as the data collection technique, and phenomenology as an analytical approach. Not only were participants' experie…
Contributions of Leisure Participation in Predicting Stress Coping and Health among Police and Emergency Response Services Workers
This study examined the extent to which frequency and enjoyment measures of leisure participation predict adaptational outcomes, over and above the contributions of general coping. Police and emergency response services workers ( N = 132) participated in the study, and a repeated measures design was used. The study provides evidence that the type of leisure activity matters in predicting immediate adaptational outcomes (coping effectiveness, copi…
Leisure and quality of life in an international and multicultural context: What Are Major Pathways Linking Leisure to Quality of Life
Framework for Aboriginal-guided decolonizing research involving Métis and First Nations persons with diabetes
The role of leisure pursuits in adaptation processes among Afghan refugees who have immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada
There is a gap in understanding the adaptation processes of minor, less established, immigrants, including the potential contribution of leisure pursuits to these processes. This study explored the role of leisure among Afghan refugees who have recently immigrated to a western Canadian city in adapting to their immigration processes. Using semi‐structured one‐on‐one interviews with 11 Afghan immigrant women and men aged from 19 to 60 years (inclu…
Pathways to Meaning-Making Through Leisure-Like Pursuits in Global Contexts
This paper incorporates international and multicultural perspectives on meaning- making through leisure-like pursuits, by acknowledging voices of non-western people including Asians, Middle-Easterners, Indigenous persons, Africans, and South Americans, in addition to some dominant Euro-North American perspectives. Based on a literature review and content analysis and synthesis, major pathways linking leisurelike pursuits to meaning-making are ide…
Contributions of Leisure Participation in Predicting Stress Coping and Health among Police and Emergency Response Services Workers
This study examined the extent to which frequency and enjoyment measures of leisure participation predict adaptational outcomes, over and above the contributions of general coping. Police and emergency response services workers ( N = 132) participated in the study, and a repeated measures design was used. The study provides evidence that the type of leisure activity matters in predicting immediate adaptational outcomes (coping effectiveness, copi…
Role of Leisure in Meaning-Making for Community-Dwelling Adults with Mental Illness: Inspiration for Engaged Life
This qualitative study intensively examined the role of leisure in meaning-making with 33 community-dwelling adults (18 females, 15 males; aged 24 to 78) from diverse cultural backgrounds (10 African Americans, 10 Caucasians, 9 Latinos, and 4 Asian Americans) with mental illness. Analyses of the interview data identified several key themes of meaning-making through leisure including the role of leisure in promoting (a) a joyful life, (b) a compos…
Contributions of leisure to “meaning-making” and its implications for leisure studies and services
This conceptual paper summarizes the current research-based knowledge about the role of leisure in meaning-making. The key themes of leisure-induced meaning-making include: (1) identity (personal and collective), (2) creativity (e.g. self-expression through creative leisure), (3) connectedness (socially, spiritually, and culturally; e.g. connections with people, religion, nature, and culture), (4) harmony/balance, (5) stress-coping and healing, (…
Culturally Meaningful Leisure as a Way of Coping with Stress among Aboriginal Individuais with Diabetes
The purpose of this study was to gain insights into the lived experiences of urban Aboriginal Canadians with diabetes in stress and coping through leisure. A framework of resilience was used to conceptually ground the study and to analytically synthesize findings about the role of leisure in coping with stress. Focus groups were used as the data collection technique, and phenomenology as an analytical approach. Not only were participants' experie…
Research Reflections Leisure Research in a Global World: Time to Reverse the Western Domination in Leisure Research
Despite the trend toward globalization, a gap in leisure research between west and east continues to exist. The noncritical use of western 1 (and ethnocentric) terminologies, including leisure in a
Family Caregivers of Individuals with Intellectual Disability: Perspectives on Life Quality and the Role of Vacations
Existing literature on quality of life (QOL) among individuals with intellectual disability and their families is largely etic in nature and, although leisure is often advanced as a core contributor, the role vacations play has not been directly examined. Drawn from phase one results of a larger, multi-year study, our purpose in this paper is to highlight the perspectives of family caregivers (i.e., biological and adoptive parents, and adult sibl…
Conceptualizing Meaning-Making through Leisure Experiences
There is a gap in knowledge concerning a full understanding of the meanings that people seek to obtain within or from leisure engagements. Understanding these meanings is a foundational knowledge in promoting, strengthening, and changing healthy leisure behavior in society, consequently the need to synthesize what is currently known and offer direction for research is necessary. This paper systematically explains the key meanings that people seek…
Leisure-Like Pursuits as an Expression of Aboriginal Cultural Strengths and Living Actions
An Aboriginal-guided decolonizing methodology is employed in this study to examine the leisure-like lived experiences of urban-dwelling Metis and First Nations women and men living with diabetes (N = 42) in Winnipeg, Canada. Directed by the Aboriginal knowledge and world views to ensure cultural sensitivity and relevance, this methodology served as foreground for the voices of the Aboriginal study participants into three key themes of leisure-lik…
Role of leisure-generated meanings in adaptation to acculturation stress of Korean immigrants in Canada
This study tests the hypothesis that leisure-generated meanings would buffer acculturation stress on the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of Korean immigrants (n = 120) in a western Canadian city. Analyses of survey data show that acculturation stress is significantly associated with lower life satisfaction and self-esteem, poorer mental health, and sociocultural adaptation. The study only supports the main effects of leisure-generated …
The other side of suicide loss: The potential role of leisure and meaning-making for suicide survivors
Suicide rates are on the rise and subsequently more people, also known as suicide survivors, are left to grieve these types of losses. Yet, there has been limited examination and understanding of how individuals living through such experiences can potentially cope with and grow from this type of loss. Meaning-making through and engagement in leisure activities has been identified as a potential resource that may help individuals make sense of the…
Leisure, engagement, and meaning-making among high-risk youth
The purpose of this article is to explore the role of constructive leisure-like pursuits in meaningful engagement with life among young people at high risk in a variety of challenges in life. This data was based on reflective insights from youth leaders (n = 9) and community agency partners (n = 8) who have been involved in the authors’ collaborative youth engagement research project for the past few years. Their insights show that constructive l…
Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial/Ethnic Ancestries
Mapping nondominant voices into understanding stress‐coping mechanisms
This study reports key findings from a research project, which examined the stress and coping mechanisms of several nondominant groups of individuals. The groups were based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and included (a) Aboriginal individuals with diabetes, (b) individuals with disabilities, and (c) gays and lesbians. Our analyses of personal narratives and life stories have led to develop an interpretive map of findings that depicts mechanisms o…
Contributions of Leisure Participation in Predicting Stress Coping and Health among Police and Emergency Response Services Workers
This study examined the extent to which frequency and enjoyment measures of leisure participation predict adaptational outcomes, over and above the contributions of general coping. Police and emergency response services workers ( N = 132) participated in the study, and a repeated measures design was used. The study provides evidence that the type of leisure activity matters in predicting immediate adaptational outcomes (coping effectiveness, copi…
Culturally Meaningful Leisure as a Way of Coping with Stress among Aboriginal Individuais with Diabetes
The purpose of this study was to gain insights into the lived experiences of urban Aboriginal Canadians with diabetes in stress and coping through leisure. A framework of resilience was used to conceptually ground the study and to analytically synthesize findings about the role of leisure in coping with stress. Focus groups were used as the data collection technique, and phenomenology as an analytical approach. Not only were participants' experie…
Research Reflections Leisure Research in a Global World: Time to Reverse the Western Domination in Leisure Research
Despite the trend toward globalization, a gap in leisure research between west and east continues to exist. The noncritical use of western 1 (and ethnocentric) terminologies, including leisure in a
Family Caregivers of Individuals with Intellectual Disability: Perspectives on Life Quality and the Role of Vacations
Existing literature on quality of life (QOL) among individuals with intellectual disability and their families is largely etic in nature and, although leisure is often advanced as a core contributor, the role vacations play has not been directly examined. Drawn from phase one results of a larger, multi-year study, our purpose in this paper is to highlight the perspectives of family caregivers (i.e., biological and adoptive parents, and adult sibl…
Framework for Aboriginal-guided decolonizing research involving Métis and First Nations persons with diabetes
Leisure and quality of life in an international and multicultural context: What Are Major Pathways Linking Leisure to Quality of Life
Mapping nondominant voices into understanding stress‐coping mechanisms
This study reports key findings from a research project, which examined the stress and coping mechanisms of several nondominant groups of individuals. The groups were based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and included (a) Aboriginal individuals with diabetes, (b) individuals with disabilities, and (c) gays and lesbians. Our analyses of personal narratives and life stories have led to develop an interpretive map of findings that depicts mechanisms o…
Pathways to Meaning-Making Through Leisure-Like Pursuits in Global Contexts
This paper incorporates international and multicultural perspectives on meaning- making through leisure-like pursuits, by acknowledging voices of non-western people including Asians, Middle-Easterners, Indigenous persons, Africans, and South Americans, in addition to some dominant Euro-North American perspectives. Based on a literature review and content analysis and synthesis, major pathways linking leisurelike pursuits to meaning-making are ide…
The role of leisure pursuits in adaptation processes among Afghan refugees who have immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada
There is a gap in understanding the adaptation processes of minor, less established, immigrants, including the potential contribution of leisure pursuits to these processes. This study explored the role of leisure among Afghan refugees who have recently immigrated to a western Canadian city in adapting to their immigration processes. Using semi‐structured one‐on‐one interviews with 11 Afghan immigrant women and men aged from 19 to 60 years (inclu…
Leisure-Like Pursuits as an Expression of Aboriginal Cultural Strengths and Living Actions
An Aboriginal-guided decolonizing methodology is employed in this study to examine the leisure-like lived experiences of urban-dwelling Metis and First Nations women and men living with diabetes (N = 42) in Winnipeg, Canada. Directed by the Aboriginal knowledge and world views to ensure cultural sensitivity and relevance, this methodology served as foreground for the voices of the Aboriginal study participants into three key themes of leisure-lik…
Leisure as a context for active living, recovery, health and life quality for persons with mental illness in a global context
Globally, the mental health system is being transformed into a strengths-based, recovery-oriented system of care, to which the concept of active living is central. Based on an integrative review of the literature, this paper presents a heuristic conceptual framework of the potential contribution that enjoyable and meaningful leisure experiences can have in active living, recovery, health and life quality among persons with mental illness. This fr…
Conceptualizing Meaning-Making through Leisure Experiences
There is a gap in knowledge concerning a full understanding of the meanings that people seek to obtain within or from leisure engagements. Understanding these meanings is a foundational knowledge in promoting, strengthening, and changing healthy leisure behavior in society, consequently the need to synthesize what is currently known and offer direction for research is necessary. This paper systematically explains the key meanings that people seek…
Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial/Ethnic Ancestries
Promoting Identities and Mental Health via Cultural/Community Activities Among Racially/Ethnically Mixed Urban American Indians
This qualitative, focus group study explored the role of cultural/community activities in potentially promoting identities and mental health among urban American Indians who have mixed racial/ethnic heritages (e.g., African, Hispanic, and Caucasian) including those with mental illness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (n = 25). The study identified a variety of unique benefits of cultural/community activities including its role in nurturing identity,…
The role of youth engagement in positive youth development and social justice youth development for high-risk, marginalised youth
This article describes reflective experiences documented by our youth leaders and community agency partners (n = 7 & 12, respectively) who have involved in our multi-year community-based research project. Overall, meaningful youth engagement facilitated by youth leadership was highlighted as a key mechanism for positive youth development (PYD) and social justice youth development (SJYD). First, the key PYD-related concepts identified include the …
Role of Leisure in Meaning-Making for Community-Dwelling Adults with Mental Illness: Inspiration for Engaged Life
This qualitative study intensively examined the role of leisure in meaning-making with 33 community-dwelling adults (18 females, 15 males; aged 24 to 78) from diverse cultural backgrounds (10 African Americans, 10 Caucasians, 9 Latinos, and 4 Asian Americans) with mental illness. Analyses of the interview data identified several key themes of meaning-making through leisure including the role of leisure in promoting (a) a joyful life, (b) a compos…
Contributions of leisure to “meaning-making” and its implications for leisure studies and services
This conceptual paper summarizes the current research-based knowledge about the role of leisure in meaning-making. The key themes of leisure-induced meaning-making include: (1) identity (personal and collective), (2) creativity (e.g. self-expression through creative leisure), (3) connectedness (socially, spiritually, and culturally; e.g. connections with people, religion, nature, and culture), (4) harmony/balance, (5) stress-coping and healing, (…
Role of leisure-generated meanings in adaptation to acculturation stress of Korean immigrants in Canada
This study tests the hypothesis that leisure-generated meanings would buffer acculturation stress on the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of Korean immigrants (n = 120) in a western Canadian city. Analyses of survey data show that acculturation stress is significantly associated with lower life satisfaction and self-esteem, poorer mental health, and sociocultural adaptation. The study only supports the main effects of leisure-generated …
Literature-informed conceptual framework for meaning-focused leisure practice
Humans naturally seek the pursuit of a meaningful, enriching life. Based on the literature on the role of leisure in meaning-making, this paper provides a conceptual framework for using a meaning-focused leisure practice. This framework suggests that leisure can promote a meaningful engagement with one’s life through maintaining: (a) a joyful life, (b) a composed life, (c) a connected life, (d) a discovered life, and (e) a hopeful and empowered l…
Leisure, engagement, and meaning-making among high-risk youth
The purpose of this article is to explore the role of constructive leisure-like pursuits in meaningful engagement with life among young people at high risk in a variety of challenges in life. This data was based on reflective insights from youth leaders (n = 9) and community agency partners (n = 8) who have been involved in the authors’ collaborative youth engagement research project for the past few years. Their insights show that constructive l…
The other side of suicide loss: The potential role of leisure and meaning-making for suicide survivors
Suicide rates are on the rise and subsequently more people, also known as suicide survivors, are left to grieve these types of losses. Yet, there has been limited examination and understanding of how individuals living through such experiences can potentially cope with and grow from this type of loss. Meaning-making through and engagement in leisure activities has been identified as a potential resource that may help individuals make sense of the…
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (12 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychotherapist (8 works) · Community Health and Development (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Meaning (existential (7 works)