Faculty Initiated Research Opportunities

DESCRIPTION:  Examining the relationship between personality factors (i.e., optimism, hardiness, self-esteem) and coping in sport and exercise populations.  Specifically looking at how certain personality traits are associated with certain types of coping responses (i.e., avoidance, active, problem solving) and what implications that might have upon both mental (i.e., depression, anxiety, injury-related distress) and physical (i.e., risk of injury, rehabilitation adherence, recovery/return to play) health outcomes. Research/scholarship projects would assist with manuscript preparation (e.g., literature reviews, preparing tables/figures, etc.) for sport psychology, sports medicine/athletic training, or health/positive psychology audiences.
STUDENT STATUS: Contact faculty researcher for details.
NUMBER OF STUDENTS:  1
HOURS: Contact faculty researcher for details.
TYPE OF SUPPORT AVAILABLE: VOLUNTEER - no monetary support
TASKS:  Contact faculty researcher for details.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT:  Word processing using MS Word
OTHER SKILL REQUIREMENT:  Passing grade in PSY 121 (required), ESS 388 (preferred but not required)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT:  NONE