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Athanasios Papaioannou

Athanasios Papaioannou

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
7110
World Ranking
8221
National Ranking
8

Overview

Athanasios Papaioannou is affiliated with the University Of Thessaly in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a notable emphasis on social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Physical Education and Pedagogy
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Physical Activity and Health

Frequently published venues for their work are:

  • International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Journal of Teaching in Physical Education
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Teaching and Teacher Education
  • Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Recent notable papers by Athanasios Papaioannou include:

  • "Sport psychology services to high performance athletes during COVID-19" (2020, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology)
  • "Promoting Physical Activity during School Closures Imposed by the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Physical Education Teachers' Behaviors in France, Italy and Turkey" (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • "Physical activity, health and well-being in an imposed social distanced world" (2020, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology)
  • "Sport psychology services to professional athletes: working through COVID-19" (2020, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology)
  • "Facebook group PETCoN (Physical Education Teacher Collaborative Network). An innovative approach to PE teacher in-service training: A self-determination theory perspective" (2020, Teaching and Teacher Education)

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Charalampos Κrommidas, Philippe Sarrazin, Robert J. Schinke, Silvio Maltagliati, and Géraldine Escriva-Boulley.

Best Publications

  • Development of a questionnaire to measure achievement orientations in physical education

    Athanasios Papaioannou

  • Teachers'motivation to participate in training and to implement innovations

    Georgios Gorozidis;Athanasios G. Papaioannou

  • A one-year intervention in 7th grade physical education classes aiming to change motivational climate and attitudes towards exercise

    Nikolaos Digelidis;Athanasios Papaioannou;Konstantinos Laparidis;Triantafyllos Christodoulidis

  • The effect of task structure, perceived motivational climate and goal orientations on students' task involvement and anxiety

    Athanasios Papaioannou;Olga Kouli

  • A Multilevel Approach to Motivational Climate in Physical Education and Sport Settings: An Individual or a Group Level Construct?

    Athanasios Papaioannou;Herbert W. Marsh;Yannis Theodorakis

  • Differential Perceptual and Motivational Patterns When Different Goals Are Adopted

    Athanasios Papaioannou

  • Age-group differences in intrinsic motivation, goal orientations and perceptions of athletic competence, physical appearance and motivational climate in Greek physical education.

    N. Digelidis;A. Papaioannou

  • Causal relationships of sport and exercise involvement with goal orientations, perceived competence and intrinsic motivation in physical education : A longitudinal study

    Athanasios Papaioannou;Evaggelos Bebetsos;Yannis Theodorakis;Triantafyllos Christodoulidis

  • Students' Perceptions of the Physical Education Class Environment for Boys and Girls and the Perceived Motivational Climate

    Athanasios Papaioannou

  • Routledge Companion to Sport and Exercise Psychology: Global perspectives and fundamental concepts

    Athanasios G. Papaioannou;Dieter Hackfort

  • Causal ordering of physical self-concept and exercise behavior: reciprocal effects model and the influence of physical education teachers

    Herbert W. Marsh;Athanasios Papaioannou;Yannis Theodorakis

  • Development and validation of the multidimensional motivational climate observation system.

    Nathan Smith;Damien Tessier;Yannis Tzioumakis;Eleanor Quested

  • Sport psychology services to high performance athletes during COVID-19

    Robert Schinke;Athanasios Papaioannou;Kristoffer Henriksen;Gangyan Si

  • Automatic self-talk questionnaire for sports (ASTQS): development and preliminary validation of a measure identifying the structure of athletes' self-talk.

    Nikos Zourbanos;Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis;Stiliani Chroni;Yannis Theodorakis

  • Goal Perspectives, Reasons for Being Disciplined, and Self-Reported Discipline in Physical Education Lessons

    Athanasios Papaioannou

  • Measuring Perceived Motivational Climate in Physical Education

    Athanasios G. Papaioannou;Nikolaos Tsigilis;Eudoxia Kosmidou;Dimitrios Milosis

  • Social agents, achievement goals, satisfaction and academic achievement in youth sport

    Athanasios G. Papaioannou;George Ampatzoglou;Periklis Kalogiannis;Alexandros Sagovits

  • Motivational climate and attitudes towards exercise in Greek senior high school: A year-long intervention

    Triantafylos Christodoulidis;Athanasios Papaioannou;Nikolaos Digelidis

  • Teachers’ self-efficacy, achievement goals, attitudes and intentions to implement the new Greek physical education curriculum

    Georgios Gorozidis;Athanasios Papaioannou

  • Goal perspectives and purposes of physical education as perceived by Greek adolescents.

    A. Papaioannou;A. I. Macdonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Yannis Theodorakis
Yannis Theodorakis University Of Thessaly
Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis
Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis University Of Thessaly
Joan L. Duda
Joan L. Duda University of Birmingham
Philippe Sarrazin
Philippe Sarrazin Grenoble Alpes University
Robert J. Schinke
Robert J. Schinke Laurentian University
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Marios Goudas
Marios Goudas University Of Thessaly
Thomas Schack
Thomas Schack Bielefeld University
Bente Wold
Bente Wold University of Bergen

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