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Overview

Vassilis Barkoukis is affiliated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with a significant body of work in doping in sports, behavioral health and interventions, and hormonal and reproductive studies. Their academic contributions also span motivation and self-concept in sports, sports analytics and performance, ethics in business and education, as well as sports, gender, and society.

Their most frequent subfields of study include sociology and political science, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, applied psychology, social psychology, and economics and econometrics.

Vassilis Barkoukis has published extensively in journals such as Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Discobolul, Performance Enhancement & Health, International Journal of Drug Policy, and Frontiers in Sports and Active Living.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barkoukis include:

  • Δέσποινα Ούρδα
  • Lambros Lazuras
  • Dmitriy Bondarev
  • Andrea Petróczi
  • Andreas Loukovitis

Key publications by Barkoukis encompass a range of topics on doping, motivation, and interventions in sports:

  • "360-degree video in education: An overview and a comparative social media data analysis of the last decade," 2021, Smart Learning Environments
  • ""Doing What Is Right and Doing It Right": A Mapping Review of Athletes' Perception of Anti-Doping Legitimacy," 2020, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • "Effects of a School-Based Intervention on Motivation for Out-of-School Physical Activity Participation," 2020, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
  • "An intervention to optimise coach-created motivational climates and reduce athlete willingness to dope (CoachMADE): a three-country cluster randomised controlled trial," 2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial," 2021, Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Best Publications

  • Perceived autonomy support in physical education and leisure-time physical activity : A cross-cultural evaluation of the trans-contextual model

    Martin S. Hagger;Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis;Vassilis Barkoukis;C. K. John Wang

  • Structural validation and cross-cultural robustness of the European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire

    Rosario Del Rey;José A. Casas;Rosario Ortega-Ruiz;Anja Schultze-Krumbholz

  • Personal and Psychosocial Predictors of Doping Use in Physical Activity Settings: A Meta-Analysis

    Nikos Ntoumanis;Johan Y. Y. Ng;Vassilis Barkoukis;Susan Backhouse

  • Method effects: the problem with negatively versus positively keyed items.

    Magnus Lindwall;Vassilis Barkoukis;Caterina Grano;Fabio Lucidi

  • The assessment of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and amotivation: Validity and reliability of the Greek version of the Academic Motivation Scale

    Vassilis Barkoukis;Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis;George Grouios;Georgios Sideridis

  • Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Theory of Planned Behavior among Young People in a Physical Activity Context

    Martin S Hagger;Nikos L D Chatzisarantis;Vassilis Barkoukis;John C K Wang

  • Extending the trans-contextual model in physical education and leisure-time contexts: Examining the role of basic psychological need satisfaction

    Vassilis Barkoukis;Martin S. Hagger;George Lambropoulos;Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis

  • Does empathy predict (cyber) bullying perpetration, and how do age, gender and nationality affect this relationship?

    Rosario Del Rey;Lambros Lazuras;José A. Casas;Vassilis Barkoukis

  • Do left-handed competitors have an innate superiority in sports?

    George Grouios;Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis;Konstantinos Alexandris;Vassilis Barkoukis

  • Developmental Trajectories of Motivation in Physical Education: Course, Demographic Differences and Antecedents

    Nikos Ntoumanis;Vassilis Barkoukis;Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani

  • Motivational and social cognitive predictors of doping intentions in elite sports: an integrated approach.

    V. Barkoukis;L. Lazuras;H. Tsorbatzoudis;A. Rodafinos

  • Motivational and sportspersonship profiles of elite athletes in relation to doping behavior.

    Vassilis Barkoukis;Lambros Lazuras;Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis;Angelos Rodafinos

  • Motivational Climate and Students’ Emotional Experiences and Effort in Physical Education

    Jarmo Liukkonen;Vassilis Barkoukis;Anthony P Watt;Timo Jaakkola

  • A process model of cyberbullying in adolescence

    Lambros Lazuras;Vassilis Barkoukis;Despoina Ourda;Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis

  • Linking coach interpersonal style with Athlete doping intentions and doping use: A prospective study

    Nikos Ntoumanis;Vassilis Barkoukis;Daniel F. Gucciardi;Derwin King Chung Chan

  • A Comparison of Classification Approaches for Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying Using Data from Six European Countries.

    Anja Schultze-Krumbholz;Kristin Göbel;Herbert Scheithauer;Antonella Brighi

  • Developmental changes in achievement motivation and affect in physical education: Growth trajectories and demographic differences

    Vassilis Barkoukis;Nikos Ntoumanis;Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani

  • Manipulation of motivational climate in physical education: effects of a seven-month intervention.

    Vassilis Barkoukis;Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis;George Grouios

  • Relationships among perceived motivational climate, motivational regulations, enjoyment, and PA participation among Finnish physical education students

    Timo Jaakkola;Sami Yli-Piipari;Vassilis Barkoukis;Jarmo Liukkonen

  • A Study of Perceived Constraints on a Community-Based Physical Activity Program for the Elderly in Greece

    Konstantinos Alexandris;Vassilis Barkoukis;Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis;George Grouios

Frequent Co-Authors

Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis
Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Lambros Lazuras
Lambros Lazuras University of Lincoln
Nikos Ntoumanis
Nikos Ntoumanis University of Southern Denmark
Martin S. Hagger
Martin S. Hagger University of California, Merced
Fabio Lucidi
Fabio Lucidi Sapienza University of Rome
Daniel F. Gucciardi
Daniel F. Gucciardi Curtin University
Arnaldo Zelli
Arnaldo Zelli University of Rome "Foro Italico"
Rosario Ortega-Ruiz
Rosario Ortega-Ruiz University of Córdoba

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