Kristina Moore
Lecturer
Dr. Kristina Moore is a lecturer at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Moore teaches and supervises graduate students in the Sport Psychology program. She is an AASP Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) and AASP Approved Mentor. As a committed scientist-practitioner, her developmental and social perspectives of applied sport psychology have informed quantitative and qualitative research projects exploring preservice coach philosophies, perceived parental influence on adolescent athletes’ self-handicapping and goal orientations as well as sport stress and enjoyment, the interaction of basic psychological needs and self-theories of ability and their prediction of collegiate athletes’ self-handicapping, and a test of high school athletes’ personal theories of character development in sport. More recent projects and interests include a critical analysis of motivational theories and postulates in sport psychology and an experimental replication of Jones and Berglas’s 1978 seminal study on self-handicapping with athletes.
Before coming to BU Wheelock, Dr. Moore was a lecturer in psychology and neuroscience at Boston College, where she taught courses in sport and exercise psychology, motivation, research methods, and sport-based youth development and mentored students in the Social Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Lab. She also served on the Athletic Advisory Board and as part-time faculty in the Woods College Masters in Sport Administration and the Lynch School Mental Health Counseling degree programs. Dr. Moore has 15+ years of experience as a sport psychology consultant for coaches, teams, and athletes, and as a youth, high school, and collegiate coach and summer youth sport camp director.
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Education
Postdoctoral Scholar, Tufts University, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development
PhD, University of Northern Colorado
MS, University of New Hampshire
BS, Gettysburg College
Courses
PE375 Psychology of Sport
CE720 Sport & Performance Psychology Practicum I
CE721 Sport & Performance Psychology Practicum II
JY360 Positive Youth Development
PE506 Motor Development: Considerations for Planning Movement