Mary Jo MacCracken

Dr. Mary Jo MacCracken

Mary Jo MacCracken Ph.D.

Professor
Sport Science & Wellness Education
College of Education, The University of Akron


Publications

International Publications

  1. MacCracken, M.J. and Stadulis, R.E. (20 June 2009).  Sub-Cultural Differences in Psychological Well-Being of Minority Youth As Reflected in Social Physique Anxiety and Intrinsic Motivation, 12th ISSP World Congress of Sport Psychology, Marrakesh, Morocco.
  2. Bonnie G. Berger, et al. (2007).  Advances in Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: International Perspectives. Joint Congress 2007 SEA Games & ASEAN Para Games Scientific Congress and 5th Bangkok ASPASP International Congress on Sport Psychology Proceedings and Papers, pages 145-147.
  3. MacCracken, Mary J. and Stadulis, Robert E.  (2007). Social Physique Anxiety Assessment and Application in Children and Adolescents. Joint Congress 2007 SEA Games & ASEAN Para Games Scientific Congress and 5th Bangkok ASPASP International Congress on Sport Psychology Proceedings and Papers, pages 155-158.
  4. MacCracken, M.J. and Stadulis, R.E. (2007). Project MacD: An innovative tennis program for minority children to combat type 2 diabetes and obesity. International Conference on Physical Activity & Obesity in Children, Toronto, Canada; refereed published abstract #P5, page 67.
  5. Stadulis, R., MacCracken, M., Fender-Scarr, L., et al. (2005). Psychometric Properties of the Children’s Version of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS-C). International Society of Sport Psychology Proceedings: World Congress, Sydney, Australia.
  6. Stadulis, R.E., Neal-Barnett, A., Fender-Scarr, L., MacCracken, M.J., Gandee, R., et al. (2004). Psychometric Properties of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (short form) with an African-American Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Female Sample. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology. (Supplement- Abstracts of the 2004 NASPSPA Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia)
  7. MacCracken, M.J., Stadulis, R.E., & Neal-Barnett, A. (2001b). Children’s motives and values concerning sport and physical activity in the new millennium: Ewing and Seefeldt (1989) revisited (with an emphasis upon race). In Papaioannou, A., Goudas, M., & Theodorakis, Y. (Eds.), In the dawn of the new millennium: Proceedings for the 10th World Congress of Sport Psychology, 296-298. Thessaloniki, Greece: Christodoulidi.           
  8. Kornspan, Alan S. & MacCracken, Mary J. (1999, October). An historical description applied to Sport: The case of David F. Tracy.  Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP) Conference Proceedings, pp. 74-75.
  9. MacCracken, M.J. (1998). Should we physical educators strive to thrive or merely survive?  Proceedings of the International Sport Science Congress, Korean Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Seoul, South Korea, pp.94-105.

National, State Refereed Publications

  1. MacCracken, M.J., Stadulis, R.E., Gandee, R., & White, A. (2012b). Changes in adolescents’ social physique anxiety, body composition, body satisfaction/dissatisfaction, AASP Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, p. 80
  2. King, J. I., Pugh, D.M., Stadulis, R., MacCracken, M.J., & Neal-Barnett, A. (2012a).  An Evaluation of the factor structure of the multidimensional anxiety scale (MASC) for children in middle school aged African American girls. (In review)
  3. MacCracken, M.J., Stadulis, R.E. & Gandee, R. (2011b), Social physique anxiety, body  composition and body satisfaction in middle school children, AASP Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, WI: The Association of Applied Sport Psychology, p. 35.  ISBN  0-976178-9-9 
  4. Stadulis, R.E., MacCracken, M.J., el al publication submitted to Journal Sport & Exercise Psychology (August 2011) (rejected).  Social Physique Anxiety in Later Childhood and Early Adolescence: Examining the Phenomenon in Caucasian and African American Samples. (rewriting for publication)
  5. MacCracken, Mary J. (Spring/Summer 2011a). Teaching Character Education Through Tennis in School Physical Education Programs. Future Focus, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, pp. 8-10. 
  6. MacCracken, Mary Jo. (Spring/Summer 2009).  Grant Writing: Help to Get You Started. Future Focus, Vol. XXX, No. 1, pp. 14-21.
  7. MacCracken, M.J. & Stadulis, R.E. (December 2009).  Grant Writing Update for Beginners. Ohio Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (OAHPERD),  Columbus, OH.  CD.
  8. MacCracken, M.J. & Stadulis, R.E. (Sept 2008), Assessing subjective well-being in minority children involved in physical activity and exercise programs, Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) Proceedings, St. Louis, MO.
  9. Stadulis, R.E. & MacCracken, Mary J. (June 2008). Social Physique Anxiety in Pre-Adolescents. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 30 (1), S200-201 (Supplement).  
  10. Stadulis, R. E., MacCracken, M. J., Ford, B. A., Morse, R. E., Queener, J. E., Sadler, C. S., & Shin-Park, K. (March 2008).  Appropriateness of the Social Physique Anxiety Scale for Children (SPAS-C). Supplement to Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 79 (1), Research Consortium Abstracts, A74-A75.