Jordan Thibodeaux

University of Louisiana at Lafayette | ULL · Kathleen Blanco Public Policy Center

Purpose: Motivation among young athletes can be reflected in their self-talk, a behavior that is often encouraged by coaches. Most research on self-talk in sport involves self-report, thus observational studies of the actual self-talk used in sport in relation to athlete motivation and coach support are needed. Methods: We observed young elite t...

College learning depends on belongingness and personal motivation. First-generation (FG) college students are at risk for lower belongingness and motivation compared to non-FG students. We examined self-reported belongingness with the Psychological Sense of School Membership scale, and intrinsic and extrinsic motivation with the Motivational Strate...

Researchers have examined self-talk and performance in tennis matches, but the current understanding of speech-to-performance associations in tennis is hindered by conflicting evidence from self-report and observation, and by the use of relatively simple statistical analyses that fail to account for speech and performance events being nested within...

The current study explored private speech (PS), private singing, and humming in relation to executive function (EF). Fifty-eight children (4–8 years)were observed as they performed a selective attention task (SAT)and engaged in PS. In addition, their EF was measured with tests of cognitive flexibility (Dimensional Change Card Sorting Task), inhibit...

How students manage their time is critical for academic performance and is an important component of self-regulated learning. The purpose of the present study was to examine relationships among first-year college students’ (N = 589) time use, academic self-regulation, and target and actual grade point average (GPA) at three time points. Findings sh...

College is a particularly valuable period of growth that allows for the examining of changes in academic goal-orientation. This project examines change over time in college performance, and links this change to student goal orientation over the first year of college. Specifically, we expected that students with strong mastery-oriented goals will ex...

Prior research on goal-orientation has recognized three distinct patterns of mastery, performance-approach, and performance avoidance. College is a particularly valuable period of growth that allows for the examining of changes in academic goal-orientation. This project examines change over time in college performance, and links this change to stud...