Willy Lens

Research.com Recognitions

• 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Best Publications

• Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goal Contents in Self-Determination Theory: Another Look at the Quality of Academic Motivation

  Maarten Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens;Edward L. Deci

  2853
  Citations

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

  Beiwen Chen;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Wim Beyers;Liesbet Boone

  2770
  Citations

• Motivating learning, performance, and persistence: the synergistic effects of intrinsic goal contents and autonomy-supportive contexts.

  Maarten Vansteenkiste;Joke Simons;Willy Lens;Kennon M. Sheldon

  2526
  Citations

• Explaining the relationships between job characteristics, burnout, and engagement: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction

  Anja Van den Broeck;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Hans De Witte;Willy Lens

  1789
  Citations

• Capturing autonomy, competence, and relatedness at work: Construction and initial validation of the Work-related Basic Need Satisfaction scale

  Anja Van den Broeck;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Hans De Witte;Bart Soenens

  1729
  Citations

• Motivational Profiles from a Self-Determination Perspective: The Quality of Motivation Matters.

  Maarten Vansteenkiste;Eline Sierens;Bart Soenens;Koen Luyckx

  1476
  Citations

• Experiences of Autonomy and Control Among Chinese Learners: Vitalizing or Immobilizing?.

  Maarten Vansteenkiste;Mingming Zhou;Willy Lens;Bart Soenens

  1080
  Citations

• The role of the future in student motivation

  Jenefer Husman;Willy Lens

  975
  Citations

• Conceptualizing parental autonomy support: adolescent perceptions of promotion of independence versus promotion of volitional functioning.

  Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens;Koen Luyckx

  869
  Citations

• Placing motivation and future time perspective theory in a temporal perspective

  Joke Simons;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens;Margareta Lacante

  749
  Citations

• 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

  629
  Citations

• Academic Achievement and Future Time Perspective as a Cognitive-Motivational Concept

  M. L. de Volder;W. Lens

  575
  Citations

• An Integrated Model for the Study of Teacher Motivation

  Saul Neves de Jesus;Willy Lens

  574
  Citations

• The role of different types of instrumentality in motivation, study strategies, and performance: Know why you learn, so you'll know what you learn!

  Joke Simons;Siegfried Dewitte;Willy Lens

  535
  Citations

• Examining the motivational impact of intrinsic versus extrinsic goal framing and autonomy-supportive versus internally controlling communication style on early adolescents' academic achievement.

  Maarten Vansteenkiste;Joke Simons;Willy Lens;Bart Soenens

  441
  Citations

• How to Become a Persevering Exerciser? Providing a Clear, Future Intrinsic Goal in an Autonomy-Supportive Way

  Maarten Vansteenkiste;Joke Simons;Bart Soenens;Willy Lens

  414
  Citations

• Understanding the association between future time perspective and self-regulated learning through the lens of self-determination theory

  Jerissa de Bilde;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens

  410
  Citations

• The 'why' and 'why not' of job search behaviour: Their relation to searching, unemployment experience, and well-being

  Maarten Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens;Siegfried De Witte;Hans De Witte

  404
  Citations

• Less Is Sometimes More: Goal Content Matters

  Maarten Vansteenkiste;Joke Simons;Willy Lens;Bart Soenens

  384
  Citations

• Understanding unemployed people's job search behaviour, unemployment experience and well-being: a comparison of expectancy-value theory and self-determination theory.

  Vansteenkiste Vansteenkiste;Willy Lens;Hans De Witte;N. T. Feather

  353
  Citations