Associate Professor
Title: Associate Professor
Phone Number:
Email address: maria.newton@health.utah.edu
Program Affiliations:
- Psychosocial Aspects of Sports
Degrees:
- B.A. University of California, Davis
- M.A. California State University, Chico
- Ph.D. Purdue University
Recent Research Activities/Interests:
- Motivation in sport and exercise across the lifespan
- How dispositional goal orientations and perceptions of the motivational climate impact
- Development of physical activity curricula designed to foster motivation
- Relationship of achievement goal theory to sociomoral development
- Use of adventure education to foster motivation and promote sociomoral growth
Representative Courses:
- ESS 3340 Sport and Exercise Psychology
- ESS 2600 Sport and Society
- ESS 6700 Sport Sociology
- ESS 6760 Sport Sociology
- ESS 6750 Motivation Theory
- ESS 6751 Character Development in Sport
