Summer Off the Court: Kianna Speight's Summer Research Internship
8/7/2018 10:41:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Gavin McFarlin - Associate SID
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DAVIDSON, N.C. — Several Davidson women's basketball players are spending their summer this year advancing their academics. Rising senior Kianna Speight is one of those Wildcats. Below is what Kianna and the research she is doing this summer on campus.
Kianna's synopsis:
"I have joined a stress and resiliency project that has been accumulating data over the past four years across four different college campuses around the state of North Carolina. My current project is focusing specifically on the various components of self-regulation and their different associations and with psychological variables such as stress, depression, resilience and grit. I am also examining whether we can use these components to predict later mental health. Lastly, I will be able to see if all these variables change over the course of a students' four years in college. Ultimately, we hope to be able to determine the most critical areas of self-regulation to establish foci points to form the basis of future interventions on college campuses."
On the court, Speight, a shooting guard from Bradenton, Fla., enters her senior season coming off a career year a season ago. She played in 29 of the Wildcats' 30 games and started five of them. Speight went on to average 5.8 points per game and was third on the team with a career-best 33 three-pointers.
DAVIDSON, N.C. — Several Davidson women's basketball players are spending their summer this year advancing their academics. Rising senior Kianna Speight is one of those Wildcats. Below is what Kianna and the research she is doing this summer on campus.
Kianna's synopsis:
"I have joined a stress and resiliency project that has been accumulating data over the past four years across four different college campuses around the state of North Carolina. My current project is focusing specifically on the various components of self-regulation and their different associations and with psychological variables such as stress, depression, resilience and grit. I am also examining whether we can use these components to predict later mental health. Lastly, I will be able to see if all these variables change over the course of a students' four years in college. Ultimately, we hope to be able to determine the most critical areas of self-regulation to establish foci points to form the basis of future interventions on college campuses."
On the court, Speight, a shooting guard from Bradenton, Fla., enters her senior season coming off a career year a season ago. She played in 29 of the Wildcats' 30 games and started five of them. Speight went on to average 5.8 points per game and was third on the team with a career-best 33 three-pointers.
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