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Overview

Ping Xiang is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Psychology and Social Sciences, with particular attention to Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Safety Research, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work broadly covers topics such as Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Education, Achievement, and Giftedness, Physical Education and Pedagogy, Youth Development and Social Support, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport, and Children's Physical and Motor Development.

Recent publications by Ping Xiang demonstrate engagement with physical education and activity, including studies on perceived competence, achievement goals, and gender differences in physical activity motivation. These papers include:

  • The Roles of Perceived Physical Education Competence, Enjoyment, and Persistence on Middle School Students' Physical Activity Engagement (2023, Perceptual and Motor Skills)
  • College Students' Achievement Goals, Social Goals, and Self-reported Persistence in Physical Activity Class Settings (2020, Quest)
  • Age and Gender Differences in Achievement Goal Orientations in Relation to Physical Activity (2022, Perceptual and Motor Skills)
  • A Conceptual Model of Perceived Motor Skill Competence, Successful Practice Trials, and Motor Skill Performance in Physical Education (2020, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education)
  • [Human Accumulation and Toxic Effects of MicroplasticsA Critical Review] (2024, PubMed)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ping Xiang include:

  • Jianmin Guan
  • Weidong Li
  • William M. Land
  • Jiling Liu
  • Xiaofen D. Hamilton

Publication venues where Ping Xiang's research often appears include:

  • Perceptual and Motor Skills
  • Journal of Teaching in Physical Education
  • International Journal of Physical Activity and Health
  • Quest
  • PubMed

Best Publications

  • Effects of Physical Activity on Motor Skills and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review.

    Nan Zeng;Mohammad Ayyub;Haichun Sun;Xu Wen

  • Achievement Goals, Social Goals, and Students’ Reported Persistence and Effort in High School Physical Education

    Jianmin Guan;Ping Xiang;Ron E. McBride;April Bruene

  • Children's motivation in elementary physical education: an expectancy-value model of achievement choice.

    Ping Xiang;Ron McBride;Jianmin Guan;Melinda Solmon

  • Video Game–Based Exercise, Latino Children's Physical Health, and Academic Achievement

    Zan Gao;Peter Hannan;Ping Xiang;David F. Stodden

  • Fourth-Grade Students' Motivational Changes in an Elementary Physical Education Running Program

    Ping Xiang;Ron E. McBride;April Bruene

  • Children's Motivation in Elementary Physical Education: A Longitudinal Study

    Ping Xiang;Ron McBride;Jianmin Guan

  • The impact of a field-based elementary physical education methods course on preservice classroom teachers' beliefs

    Ping Xiang;Susan Lowy;Ron E. McBride

  • Achievement goals, perceived motivational climate, and students' self-reported mastery behaviors.

    Ping Xiang;Amelia Lee

  • Fourth Graders' Motivation in an Elementary Physical Education Running Program

    Ping Xiang;Ron E. McBride;April Bruene

  • Children’s Conceptions of Ability in Physical Education

    Amelia M. Lee;Jo A. Carter;Ping Xiang

  • Dispositions toward critical thinking: The preservice teacher's perspective

    Ron E. Mcbride;Ping Xiang;David Wittenburg

  • The Development of Self-Perceptions of Ability and Achievement Goals and Their Relations in Physical Education

    Ping Xiang;Amelia Lee

  • An Analysis of Research on Student Health-Related Fitness Knowledge in K-16 Physical Education Programs.

    Xiaofen Deng Keating;Louis Harrison;Li Chen;Ping Xiang

  • Relatedness need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and engagement in secondary school physical education

    Ping Xiang;Bülent Ağbuğa;Jiling Liu;Ron E. McBride

  • Achievement Goals and Their Relations to Self-Reported Persistence/Effort in Secondary Physical Education: A Trichotomous Achievement Goal Framework

    Bulent Agbuga;Ping Xiang

  • An Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Dispositions Toward Critical Thinking: A cross-cultural perspective

    Ron E. McBride;Ping Xiang;David Wittenburg;Jianhua Shen

  • Interactive Impact of Intrinsic Motivators and Extrinsic Rewards on Behavior and Motivation Outcomes

    Ping Xiang;Ang Chen;April Bruene

  • Using Achievement Goal Theory to Assess an Elementary Physical Education Running Program

    Ping Xiang;April Bruene;Ron E. McBride

  • Self-efficacy and outcome expectancy in beginning weight training class: their relations to students' behavioral intention and actual behavior.

    Zan Gao;Ping Xiang;Amelia M. Lee;Louis Harrison

  • Conceptions of Ability and Achievement Goals in Physical Education: Comparisons of American and Chinese Students.

    Ping Xiang;Amelia Lee;Jianhua Shen

  • Reliability and Validity Evidence for the Social Goal Scale-Physical Education (SGS-PE) in High School Settings

    Jianmin Guan;Ron E. McBride;Ping Xiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zan Gao
Zan Gao University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Melinda A. Solmon
Melinda A. Solmon Louisiana State University
Oi-Man Kwok
Oi-Man Kwok Texas A&M University
George B. Cunningham
George B. Cunningham Texas A&M University
Jeffrey Liew
Jeffrey Liew Texas A&M University
Ang Chen
Ang Chen University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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