Peter Joseph Ward

Assistant Professor
Recreation Management and Youth Leadership, Department of

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Office: W427 TNRB
Phone: 801-422-3140
Email: peter_ward@byu.edu
Expertise:
  • Youth Development
Research:
  • My primary research area is examining the leader-follower relationship among adolescents. I consider what characteristics of a youth leader are attractive to other youth. Furthermore, I am starting to examine adolescents relationships and how they contribute to positive youth development. I use self0deterrmination theory and social exchange theory as a bases to explain these types of social interactions. While my research has mainly focused on males, I am beginning to include female relationships. I am also currently involved with a research time that is looking at marital satisfaction with relationship to leisure. The base of the research stems from the Core and Balance Model used to explain family functioning.
Education:
  • Ph. D., Parks, Recreation, and Tourism, University of Utah, 2006
  • MBA, Business Administration, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2003
  • BS/BA, Business Marketing, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 1998
Group Affiliations:
  • Family Recreation - Primary
  • Leisure Services Management - Primary
  • Youth & Family Recreation - Primary
  • Youth Leadership - Primary
  • Commercial Recreation - Secondary
  • Community Recreation - Secondary
  • Scouting Education - Secondary
Selected Publications:
  • "Validity and Reliability of Satisfaction with Married LIfe Scale," NRPA 2008    
  • "Couple Leisure and Marital Satisfaction: Examing the Mechanisms of Satisfaction using Self-Determination Theory," NRPA 2008    
  • "Followership: A Study of the Leadership Characteristics that Influence Adolescents to Follow," Leisure Insights Pages 6-7, 18, July, 2008    
  • "Characteristics of Youth Leadership that Influence Adolescent Peers to Follow," Journal of Park and Recreation Administration Volume 26, Pages 78-94, 2008    
  • "Followership: A study on leadership characteristics that influence adolescents to follow," Boy Scouts of America - Great Salt Lake Council Boy Scouts of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, November, 2007    
  • "An examination of adolescent peer followership using social exchange and self-determination theories," Journal of Recreation and Leisure November, 2007    
  • "Leadership characteristics that influence adolescents to follow," NRPA September, 2007    
Languages:
  • Spanish