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Overview

Athanasios Mouratidis is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their scholarly work centers primarily on psychology, with a significant focus on social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and safety research.

Their research explores various topics including:

  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Among notable recent publications authored or co-authored by Mouratidis are:

  • "It is autonomous, not controlled motivation that counts: Linear and curvilinear relations of autonomous and controlled motivation to school grades," 2020, Learning and Instruction
  • "Perceived teachers' behavior and students' engagement in physical education: the mediating role of basic psychological needs and self-determined motivation," 2020, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
  • "See the forest by looking at the trees: Physical education teachers' interpersonal style profiles and students' engagement," 2022, European Physical Education Review
  • "Life aspirations, school engagement, social anxiety, social media use and fear of missing out among adolescents," 2022, Current Psychology
  • "Muscle Architecture Adaptations to Static Stretching Training: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis," 2023, Sports Medicine - Open

Frequent co-authors in Mouratidis's work include:

  • Aikaterini Michou
  • Aylin Koçak
  • Francisco Miguel Leo Marcos
  • Juan José Pulido González
  • Maarten Vansteenkiste

Common publication venues for Mouratidis's research are:

  • Educational Psychology
  • Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
  • Psychology in the Schools
  • Social Psychology of Education
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies

Best Publications

  • Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures

    Beiwen Chen;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Wim Beyers;Liesbet Boone

  • The motivating role of positive feedback in sport and physical education: evidence for a motivational model.

    Athanasios Mouratidis;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens;Georgios D. Sideridis

  • Perceived parental psychological control and adolescent depressive experiences: a cross-cultural study with Belgian and South-Korean adolescents.

    Bart Soenens;Seong Yeon Park;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Athanasios Mouratidis

  • Beware of your teaching style: A school-year long investigation of controlling teaching and student motivational experiences

    Kimberley J. Bartholomew;Nikos Ntoumanis;Athanasios Mouratidis;Ermioni Katartzi

  • Moving the achievement goal approach one step forward: Toward a systematic examination of the autonomous and controlled reasons underlying achievement goals

    Maarten Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens;Andrew J. Elliot;Bart Soenens

  • Vitality and Interest-Enjoyment as a Function of Class-to-Class Variation in Need-Supportive Teaching and Pupils' Autonomous Motivation.

    Athanasios A. Mouratidis;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Georgios Sideridis;Willy Lens

  • How you provide corrective feedback makes a difference: the motivating role of communicating in an autonomy-supporting way.

    Athanasios A. Mouratidis;Willy Lens;Maarten Vansteenkiste

  • Perfectionism, self-determined motivation, and coping among adolescent athletes

    Athanasios Mouratidis;Aikaterini Michou

  • Daily Ups and Downs in Women's Binge Eating Symptoms: The Role of Basic Psychological Needs, General Self-Control, and Emotional Eating

    Joke Verstuyf;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Bart Soenens;Liesbet Boone

  • Day-to-day Variation in Autonomy-Supportive and Psychologically Controlling Parenting: The Role of Parents’ Daily Experiences of Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration

    Elien Mabbe;Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Jolene van der Kaap-Deeder

  • Detaching reasons from aims: fair play and well-being in soccer as a function of pursuing performance-approach goals for autonomous or controlling reasons.

    Maarten Vansteenkiste;Athanasios A. Mouratidis;Willy Lens

  • On Social Achievement Goals: Their Relations With Peer Acceptance, Classroom Belongingness, and Perceptions of Loneliness

    Athanasios A. Mouratidis;Georgios D. Sideridis

  • Perceived teachers’ behavior and students’ engagement in physical education: the mediating role of basic psychological needs and self-determined motivation

    F. M. Leo;Athanasios Mouratidis;J. J. Pulido;M. A. Lopez-Gajardo

  • Perceived structure and achievement goals as predictors of students' self-regulated learning and affect and the mediating role of competence need satisfaction

    Athanasios Mouratidis;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Aikaterini Michou;Willy Lens

  • Enriching the hierarchical model of achievement motivation: Autonomous and controlling reasons underlying achievement goals

    Aikaterini Michou;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Athanasios A. Mouratidis;Willy Lens;Willy Lens

  • Beyond positive and negative affect: achievement goals and discrete emotions in the elementary physical education classroom.

    Athanasios Mouratidis;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens;Yves Vanden Auweele

  • Perceived coach-created and peer-created motivational climates and their associations with team cohesion and athlete satisfaction: evidence from a longitudinal study

    Tomás García-Calvo;Francisco Miguel Leo;Inmaculada Gonzalez-Ponce;Pedro Antonio Sánchez-Miguel

  • Begin-of-school-year perceived autonomy-support and structure as predictors of end-of-school-year study efforts and procrastination: the mediating role of autonomous and controlled motivation

    A. Mouratidis;A. Michou;Nathalie Aelterman;Leen Haerens

  • Examining Correlates of Game-to-Game Variation in Volleyball Players’ Achievement Goal Pursuit and Underlying Autonomous and Controlling Reasons

    Maarten Vansteenkiste;Athanasios Mouratidis;Thomas Van Riet;Willy Lens

  • From daily need experiences to autonomy-supportive and psychologically controlling parenting via psychological availability and stress

    Jolene Van der Kaap-Deeder;Bart Soenens;Elien Mabbe;Lisa Dieleman

  • Daily fluctuations in perfectionism dimensions and their relation to eating disorder symptoms

    Liesbet Boone;Bart Soenens;Athanasios Mouratidis;Maarten Vansteenkiste

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten Vansteenkiste
Maarten Vansteenkiste Ghent University
Bart Soenens
Bart Soenens Ghent University
Willy Lens
Willy Lens KU Leuven
Georgios D. Sideridis
Georgios D. Sideridis Boston Children's Hospital
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Nathalie Aelterman
Nathalie Aelterman Ghent University
Kennon M. Sheldon
Kennon M. Sheldon University of Missouri
Edward L. Deci
Edward L. Deci University of Rochester
Bart Duriez
Bart Duriez KU Leuven
Nikos Ntoumanis
Nikos Ntoumanis University of Southern Denmark

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