Diana Curtis is an Assistant Professor at Rockhurst University in the Education Department. She earned her Ph.D. in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Springfield College and is currently teaching statistics, research methods, and pedagogy in the Ed.D. program. Diana’s research interests include the psychology of amateur distance athletes and the relation of self-handicapping to performance. In addition, she is also passionate about statistics, and in particular, scale development, in order to more effectively measure latent constructs within the field of psychology. She completed her dissertation on the development of a scale to assess self-handicapping in distance runners. As an avid distance athlete, Diana is constantly seeking to apply her research to practice.