Stéphanie Girard

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières · Département des Sciences de l'Activité Physique

Physical education teachers use motivational strategies that can (positively or negatively) affect their students’ level of motivation and engagement. Indeed, according to their experiences and beliefs, some teachers may focus on strategies that thwart, rather than support, students’ psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness). Effe...

Background Inclusion in childcare centers involves a support system that includes funding policies, inclusive practices and access to ongoing training. The province of Quebec (Canada) benefits from a network of subsidized childcare services for children from birth to 5 years old. Although two financial measures support educational childcare centers...

Substance use disorder is a worldwide issue that entails negative health and physical activity is a promising complementary therapy for alleviating the consequences. The objective of this reviews is to characterize physical activity interventions offered in the literature and explore their effects during treatment for people with substance use diso...

La pandémie de COVID-19 a grandement affecté la profession enseignante au Québec. L’objectif du projet de recherche est de décrire le vécu des enseignants durant cette période. Vingt-cinq enseignants ont participé à la recherche par le moyen d’une entrevue individuelle semi-dirigée. Cet article présente le cas spécifique d’un des enseignants rencon...

Substance use disorder is a worldwide issue that entails negative health and physical activity is a promising complementary therapy for alleviating the consequences. The objective of this reviews is to characterize physical activity interventions offered in the literature and explore their effects during treatment for people with substance use diso...

Structural equation modeling involving latent interaction has garnered much attention from researchers in many disciplines. Interestingly, Becher & Trowler (2001) described academics as living in a tribe sharing a common set of practices and led by a stable elite. To provide an overview of psychological and educational studies using the latent mode...

Attending a day camp during summer has many benefits for children and their families. When a child has special needs, challenges may be encountered. This is especially true for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Based on nine articles selected from seven databases, the objective is to shed light on the adaptations or intervention strateg...

Les enseignants d'éducation physique et à la santé (ÉPS) rapportent avoir de la difficulté à soutenir la motivation des élèves. Afin de pouvoir orienter la formation initiale de manière à contrer cette difficulté, les perceptions de futurs étudiants en enseignement de l'ÉPS, 51 participants (M = 22,4 ans; É-T = ,39) ont été recrutés lors de tests d...

Contexte: L’activité physique utilisée comme complément à un traitement en santé mentale a de nombreux bienfaits appuyés par la littérature scientifique. Par contre, on n’en sait peu quant à ses effets perçus pendant un traitement pour trouble de l’usage d’une substance. Objectif: Mieux comprendre la perception des usagers face à l’activité physiqu...

La présentation était dans un format de 180 sec. Nous devions présenter nos résultats de recherche en les vulgarisant. Ma recherche a mis en lumière que l'activité physique pratiquée pendant un traitement pour la dépendance était vue comme un facteur de protection contre la rechute à la suite de celle-ci.

Background Physical education (PE) teachers report needing additional support in terms of classroom climate and students’ motivation (Verret et al. [2017]. Enquête provinciale sur les pratiques inclusives en enseignement de l’éducation physique et à la santé: Rapport provincial primaire et secondaire. Montréal, Québec: Université du Québec à Montré...

Background The effect of basic needs and motivational climate has been widely examined in recent years in the field of achievement motivation. Nevertheless, recent studies indicate the need to consider students’ (with or without special needs) social goals (e.g. affiliation, recognition, status and responsibility goals) in order to achieve a better...

Le présent article est une exemplification méthodologique de l’utilisation des graphiques Johnson-Neyman pour interpréter l’effet d’interaction entre variables latentes. Il fait suite à l’exemplification méthodologique de Girard et Béland (2017) et apporte certaines mises à jour au regard des analyses précédemment exemplifiées. De plus, il propose...

In recent years, a number of theorists have examined students’ sense of belonging in school contexts, in order to better understand the ways they can be connected to academic achievement. To more thoroughly investigate these psychological processes, we applied the Anderman and Freeman model (2004) to validate four hypotheses. The sample consists of...

Organized sport yields many cognitive, social and physical benefits and is one of the most popular types of physical activity for children and adolescents. Despite the benefits of sports participation, a substantial proportion of adolescents fail to meet Canadian guidelines regarding physical activity. In this regard, it is relevant to understand t...

Motivation to take part in sufficient levels of physical activity is a common problem during adolescence. This study investigated about motivational characteristics of a cohort of 1804 adolescents involved in a large organized sport event, “Quebec’s Summer Games Final”. Questionnaires were completed preceding their participation to the games. Fifte...

Scientific evidence reveals a significant decline in exercise behaviors during adolescence. Although multiple school-based initiatives have been implemented in Canada, little is known of how these initiatives affect students' motivation for subsequent physical activity (PA). The transcontextual model of motivation offers an interesting approach to...

Several studies associate physical activities with a reduction in the problems unique to vulnerable students. Thus, initiatives to promote motivation for physical activity appear essential. The objective of this research was to determine if participation in a physical education (PE) teachers’ initiative made it possible to increase unmotivated stud...

Purpose : To assess if high school students’ leisure-time physical activity is predicted by their perception of the motivational climate, their perceived competence, and their achievement goals in physical education (PE) and if these variables interact with each other. Methods : A sample of 843 high school students completed self-reported questionn...

Il est reconnu que la transition vers le milieu scolaire est une étape cruciale et complexe pour tous les enfants et leurs familles, et particulièrement pour les enfants ayant des besoins particuliers. La présente revue narrative vise à identifier comment la transition vers la maternelle d’enfants ayant un trouble du spectre de l’autisme (TSA) a ét...

Dionne, C. (2018, Octobre). Inclure dès le milieu de garde. Le Nouvelliste. Repéré à https://www.lenouvelliste.ca/opinions/carrefour-des-lecteurs/inclure-des-le-milieu-de-garde-b7023b465d06a51ad3b9a987c9291bdf

Dionne, C. (2018, Octobre). La nécessaire inclusion dès la petite enfance. Le Devoir. Repéré à https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/539553/inclure-des-le-milieu-de-garde

Based on achievement goal theory, this paper aimed to verify if relationships between student-perceived motivational climate and their achievement goals differ according to different types of teacher-induced climates in physical education (PE). A sample of 651 French-Canadian students and 23 PE teachers (categorized in three clusters) completed sel...

Au Québec, la fin de l’adolescence concorde avec la transition entre l’école secondaire et le collégial. Cette étude porte sur les trajectoires de changement au regard de la pratique d’activités physiques, de la condition physique et des dimensions de l’estime de soi physique d’adolescents prenant part à un programme d’éducation physique au collégi...

Le présent article est une exemplification méthodologique de la méthode LMS (Latent Moderated Structural Equations) disponible dans le logiciel Mplus. Des données recueillies pour étudier la motivation d’adolescentes (n = 434) en éducation physique serviront à présenter la méthodologie à suivre pour évaluer l’interaction de variables latentes dans...

Building and sustaining students’ sense of belonging at school has been proposed by teachers and researchers as a means of stimulating students’ intent or desire to learn and of reducing student attrition. This article will present the results of an inquiry into the literature on belonging to support the perspective that is it necessary, not only t...

This article outlines a strategy that we, as high school teachers, used in the academic year 2012-2013 to improve a student’s school engagement. Extracurricular activities such as sports have proven useful (among other strategies) to counter school disengagement, specifically in enhancing positive social relations among the teachers and students in...

Cette étude évalue l'effet modérateur du sentiment de compétence et du sexe des élèves dans la relation entre le climat motivationnel et l'adoption de buts de maîtrise en éducation physique. Des élèves (640) d'écoles secondaires francophones (11) ont été interrogés au moyen de questionnaires composés d'items autorévélés. Les résultats des régressio...