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Presence Formerly Arkansas
Last published 2024
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Jordan Thibodeaux

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Senior Research Associate

Formerly Arkansas Affiliated with Arkansas Tech University through 2021.

5 h-index 8 pubs 143 cited

  • Youth Sports
  • Sports
  • Tennis
  • Adolescent
  • Goals
  • Humans
  • Motivation

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Jordan Thibodeaux researches self-talk and its relationship to motivation and performance in adolescent athletes, particularly in tennis. Their work investigates how internal dialogue influences goal orientation, motivational climate, and overall athletic outcomes. Thibodeaux has explored the content of self-talk, distinguishing between observed and self-reported speech, and utilized hierarchical linear modeling to analyze its impact on youth tennis performance. Additionally, their research has touched upon first-year college students' time use and the role of private speech and song in children's executive functioning. Thibodeaux's scholarship includes work on fundamental social motives and the psychological dimensions of environmental behavior, such as 'going green to be seen.'

Metrics

  • h-index: 5
  • Publications: 8
  • Citations: 143

Positions

  • Senior Research Associate
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette Blanco Public Policy Center ORCID
  • Senior Research Associate
    Arkansas Tech University ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Stay Positive: Self-Talk in Relation to Motivational Climate, Goal Orientation, and Self-Talk Encouragement in Tennis (2021)
    Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Careful what you say to yourself: Exploring self-talk and youth tennis performance via hierarchical linear modeling (2020)
    Psychology of sport and exercise 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Singing to the self: Children’s private speech, private song, and executive functioning (2019)
    Cognitive Development 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • What do youth tennis athletes say to themselves? Observed and self-reported self-talk on the court (2018)
    Psychology of sport and exercise 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • First-Year College Students’ Time Use (2016)
    Journal of Advanced Academics 93 citations DOI OpenAlex

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