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Patrick Gaudreau

Patrick Gaudreau

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
8985
World Ranking
5469
National Ranking
368

Patrick Gaudreau publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick Gaudreau sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 150 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Patrick Gaudreau D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick Gaudreau sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patrick Gaudreau is a researcher affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada, specializing in the field of Psychology. Their work encompasses diverse subfields including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include perfectionism, procrastination, and anxiety studies; motivation and self-concept in sports; sport psychology and performance; education, achievement, and giftedness; anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes; grit, self-efficacy, and motivation; and mind wandering and attention.

Patrick Gaudreau has published extensively in several key venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Sport Exercise and Performance Psychology
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Their recent papers include:

  • "Because excellencism is more than good enough: On the need to distinguish the pursuit of excellence from the pursuit of perfection." (2022), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Is perfectionism a killer of creative thinking? A test of the model of excellencism and perfectionism" (2021), British Journal of Psychology
  • "Profiles of Emotion Dysregulation Among University Students Who Self-Injure: Associations with Parent-Child Relationships and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Characteristics" (2021), Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • "Fear of Failure Mediates the Relation Between Parental Psychological Control and Academic Outcomes: A Latent Mediated-Moderation Model of Parents' and Children's Genders" (2020), Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • "Separating the core definitional feature and the signature expressions of dispositional perfectionism: Implications for theory, research, and practice" (2021), Personality and Individual Differences

Their research network includes collaboration with frequent co-authors such as Benjamin J. I. Schellenberg, Jérémie Verner-Filion, Laurence Boileau, Alexandre Gareau, and Kristina Kljajić.

Best Publications

  • Latent Class Growth Modelling: A Tutorial

    Heather Andruff;Natasha Carraro;Amanda Thompson;Patrick Gaudreau

  • Testing a 2 × 2 model of dispositional perfectionism

    Patrick Gaudreau;Amanda Thompson

  • Development of a questionnaire for the assessment of coping strategies employed by athletes in competitive sport settings

    Patrick Gaudreau;Jean-Pierre Blondin

  • Positive and negative affective states in a performance-related setting: Testing the factorial structure of the panas across two samples of french-canadian participants.

    Patrick Gaudreau;Xavier Sanchez;Jean-Pierre Blondin

  • Spontaneous and experimentally induced action planning and coping planning for physical activity: A meta-analysis

    Natasha Carraro;Patrick Gaudreau

  • Self-compassion in the stress process in women athletes.

    Amber D. Mosewich;Catherine M. Sabiston;Kent C. Kowalski;Patrick Gaudreau

  • Self-Determination, Coping, and Goal Attainment in Sport

    Catherine E. Amiot;Patrick Gaudreau;Céline M. Blanchard

  • Employee empowerment: From managerial practices to employees' behavioral empowerment

    Jean‐Sébastien Boudrias;Patrick Gaudreau;André Savoie;Alexandre J.S. Morin

  • Athletes Broad Dimensions of Dispositional Perfectionism: Examining Changes in Life Satisfaction and the Mediating Role of Sport-Related Motivation and Coping

    Patrick Gaudreau;Sheilah Antl

  • Athletes' coping during a competition: relationship of coping strategies with positive affect, negative affect, and performance–goal discrepancy

    P Gaudreau;J.-P Blondin;A.-M Lapierre

  • The advantages of partialling perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns: Critical issues and recommendations

    Joachim Stoeber;Patrick Gaudreau

  • Different athletes cope differently during a sport competition: a cluster analysis of coping

    Patrick Gaudreau;Jean-Pierre Blondin

  • Does it take three to tango? Psychological need satisfaction and athlete burnout.

    S. Perreault;P. Gaudreau;M. C. Lapointe;C. Lacroix

  • Modeling the Experience of Psychological Health at Work: The Role of Personal Resources, Social- Organizational Resources, and Job Demands

    Jean-Sébastien Boudrias;Pascale Desrumaux;Patrick Gaudreau;Katia Nelson

  • Dispositional perfectionism and well-being: A test of the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism in the sport domain.

    Patrick Gaudreau;Jérémie Verner-Filion

  • Bolstering Implementation Plans for the Long Haul: The Benefits of Simultaneously Boosting Self-Concordance or Self-Efficacy

    Richard Koestner;E. J. Horberg;Patrick Gaudreau;Theodore Powers

  • Can high-intensity exercise be more pleasant?: attentional dissociation using music and video.

    Leighton Jones;Costas I. Karageorghis;Panteleimon Ekkekakis

  • Differential Associations of Dispositional Optimism and Pessimism With Coping, Goal Attainment, and Emotional Adjustment During Sport Competition.

    Patrick Gaudreau;Jean-Pierre Blondin

  • Passion and Coping: Relationships With Changes in Burnout and Goal Attainment in Collegiate Volleyball Players

    Benjamin J I Schellenberg;Patrick Gaudreau;Peter R E Crocker

  • How to Use the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) To Estimate Different Dyadic Patterns in MPLUS: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

    Josée Fitzpatrick;Alexandre Gareau;Marie-France Lafontaine;Patrick Gaudreau

  • The Ups and Downs of Coping and Sport Achievement: An Episodic Process Analysis of Within-Person Associations

    Patrick Gaudreau;Adam Nicholls;Andrew R. Levy

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter R.E. Crocker
Peter R.E. Crocker University of British Columbia
Catherine M. Sabiston
Catherine M. Sabiston University of Toronto
Marie-France Lafontaine
Marie-France Lafontaine University of Ottawa
Katherine A. Tamminen
Katherine A. Tamminen University of Toronto
Richard Koestner
Richard Koestner McGill University
Robert J. Vallerand
Robert J. Vallerand University of Quebec at Montreal
Catherine E. Amiot
Catherine E. Amiot University of Quebec at Montreal
Kent C. Kowalski
Kent C. Kowalski University of Saskatchewan
Alexandre J. S. Morin
Alexandre J. S. Morin Concordia University
George K. Georgiou
George K. Georgiou University of Alberta

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