Current projects

• Caring coaching climates emerge as key factor in promoting high school athletes’ well-being and motivation, complimented by task-involving climates. 
• Psychoneuroendocrine interactions in response to the motivational climate in a sport setting: An experimental investigation
• An experimental investigation into the impact of a mindfulness-based, mental skills training program designed to promote self-compassion on youth athletes’ psychophysiological stress and motivational responses to an ego-involving climate. 
• An experimental investigation examining Division I athletes’ inflammatory stress responses to the leader-driven motivational climate during a free throw shooting clinic. 
• Division I athletes’ psychological stress and motivational responses to the coach-driven motivational climate on their collegiate teams.
• The impact of the perceived motivational climate during a free throw shooting clinic on the objective performance, improvement, and effort of former basketball players.
• The impact of the perceived motivational climate on collegiate athletes’ cortisol awakening response and well-being while in season.
• The impact of coach created motivational climate on Division III athletes' anticipatory stress response to practice.
• Using achievement goal perspective theory and a stress-is-enhancing mindset to help protect youth athletes against performance stress: An applied investigation.
• Markedly different stress and motivational responses to the perceived motivational climate found in college students learning a new physical activity-based skill: A qualitative investigation of participant experiences.