This project
assesses the impact of trauma on the survivors of police officers killed in the
line-of-duty with an emphasis looking toward post-traumatic growth. This
approach looks toward opportunities inherent in trauma to build new and
improved life structures resulting in positive changes in self-perception,
interpersonal relationships, and life philosophies.
Sponsor: Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc.
PI: Teresa Bear
This project is
an assessment of recreation investment needs and opportunities in Oklahoma
State Parks. It initiates a process that has great value to the Oklahoma State
Park managers with possible extension to other recreation resource providers.
Furthermore, this assessment provides an opportunity for the department
leadership and the commission to base decisions for future development on more
accurate information from the primary recreation users of Oklahoma State Park
facilities. This project also provides the opportunity for the public to have a
representative voice in planning for the public recreation estate as provided
through the state land management agency with the highest public profile.
Sponsor: Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation
Department
PI: Lowell Caneday
Washita
Battlefield National Historic Site preserves the site of one of the largest
engagements on the southern plains, the attack of Lt. Colonel George Armstrong
Custer on the sleeping village of peace chief Black Kettle in 1868. This
project will assess visitor needs and opportunities of this historic site and
link it with other studies currently being conducted throughout the
nation.
Sponsor: National Park Service
PI:
Lowell Caneday
Development of Information to Evaluate
Customer Requirements for Recreation Facilities and Services in the Tulsa
District
At the end of the twentieth century,
numerous Army Corps of Engineers projects had been in place for thirty to fifty
years. These projects had experienced numerous changes during their designed
lives, including changes encompassing politics, physiology, hydrology,
technology, public perception, human behavior, budgets and economics. Given the
aging of the Corps facilities and related deterioration and
“datedness” of those sites, and given the changes in public
perception regarding the purposes of Corps facilities, it was essential that
evaluation be initiated at Corps projects to prepare for the next generation of
recreational use. During the first year of this project (summer 2000) a valid
and reliable methodology and instrumentation to evaluate facility needs and
visitor preferences at Corps of Engineers’ recreation sites was
developed, tested, and established through research at Lake Tenkiller and Lake
Fort Gibson. During the second year of the project (summer 2001), twelve Corps
lakes from the Tulsa District ranging from central Kansas to north Texas and
across Oklahoma were included.
More than 5,000 interviews were completed with day visitors, boat ramp
users, and campers at Corps of Engineers facilities at these twelve lakes.
Sponsor: United States Army Corps of Engineers
PI: Lowell Caneday
This contract
reimburses OSU for instruction included in specified continuing education
programs.
Sponsor:
Oklahoma Recreation and Park Society
PI: Jerry Jordan
This study will
compare Body Mass Index (BMI) and body composition (BC) in selected
populations. Placing individuals into health risk categories based on BMI can
be misleading and in error when dealing with certain subsets of the population.
After completing a health questionnaire, subjects will be measured for height
and weight and body composition.
Subsequently, BMI will be calculated and correlated with BC. Previous research
has indicated statistically significant differences between self reported
height and weight and actual height and weigh in both males and females.
Following BMI calculations these differences resulted in inaccurate placements
in health risk categories.
Sponsor:
COE Internal Research Grant
PIs: Bert Jacobson, Tonya Palmer
National
Youth Sports Program
For the 29th
consecutive year, the National Youth Sports Program brought approximately 500
children from the surrounding area to the Oklahoma State University campus to
participate in basic instruction in sports and educational programs including
drug and alcohol education, developing self-esteem, teenage diet control, and
understanding various cultures in Oklahoma and the world. Also included in the
education program were career development, wellness concepts, and occupational
education. Students commuted to
campus for 25 days of activities, which included a breakfast and hot lunch
provided by the USDA and Stillwater Public Schools.
Sponsor:
National Collegiate Athletic Association
PI: Sarah Price
Assessment of Achievement Motivation on Division One Female Softball Players During Winning and Losing Competition
Achievement motivation is a primary consideration
for successful and continuous involvement in a sport. Investigations have been
primarily geared toward physical aspects of the sport with little regard for
psychological factors. The purpose of this research is to survey division-one
softball players’ achievement motivation following competition. Passion
for softball, status on team and win/loss record will be of interest.
Sponsor: COE Internal Research Grant
PIs: Sarah Price, Bert Jacobson
Program
provides tuition reimbursement for school psychology graduate students for
coursework in preparation for later enrollment in practica and school
psychology internships.
Sponsor: Oklahoma State Department of Education
PI: Terry Stinnett