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Scientific discipline
Statistics

Teaching
Undergraduate:
-Statistics in Sport Sciences
Post-graduate:
-Statistics in Physical Education and Sports
-Statistical Design and Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Research interests
-Motivation in achievement contexts
-Personal and contextual factors predicting human affect, cognition, and behavior
-Interpersonal differences and intrapersonal variation of human functioning

Degrees
-Bachelor of Physical Education and Sport Science. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 1988
-Bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy. Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 1996
-MSc. in Sport and Exercise Psychology. Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2002.
-Ph.D. Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. 2009. Dissertation title: “In Search of Quality of Motivation: Antecedents and Correlates of Autonomous Motivation and Achievement Goals in Sport and Physical Education”.

Indicative Publications

1. Mouratidis, A., Michou, A., Sayil, M., & Altan, S. (2021). It is autonomous, not controlled motivation that counts: Linear and curvilinear relations of autonomous and controlled motivation to school grades. Learning and Instruction, 73. 101433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2020.101433
2. Leo, F. M., Mouratidis, A., Pulido, J. J., López-Gajardo, M. A., & Sánchez-Oliva, D. (2020). Perceived teachers’ behavior and students’ engagement in physical education: The mediating role of basic psychological needs and self-determined motivation. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 1-18. doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2020.1850667
3. Bartholomew, K. J., Ntoumanis, N., Mouratidis, A., Katartzi, E., Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C., & Vlachopoulos, S. (2018). Beware of your teaching style: A school-year long investigation of controlling teaching and student motivational experiences. Learning and Instruction, 53, 50-63. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.07.006
4. Haerens, L., Aelterman, N., Cardon, G., Krijgsman, C. A., Borgoouts, L., & Mouratidis, A. (2018). How does knowledge of the assessment criteria relate to adolescents’ motivation in physical education? A self-determination theory approach. European Physical Education Review, 25, 983- 1001. doi.org/10.1177/1356336X18783983
5. Mouratidis, A., Michou, A., & Vassiou, A. (2017). Adolescents’ autonomous functioning and implicit theories of ability as predictors of their school achievement and week-to-week study regulation and well-being. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 48, 56-66. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.09.001
6. Mouratidis, A., & Lens, W. (2015). Adolescents’ psychological functioning at school and in sports: The role of future time perspective and domain-specific and situation-specific self-determined motivation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 34, 643-673. doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2015.34.8.643
7. Mouratidis, A., & Michou, A. (2011). Perfectionism, self-determined motivation, and coping among adolescent athletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise.12, 355-367. doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2011.03.006
8. Mouratidis, A., Vansteenkiste, M., Sideridis, G., & Lens, W. (2011). Vitality and interest-enjoyment as a function of class-to-class variation in need-supportive teaching and pupils’ autonomous motivation. Journal of Educational Psychology.103, 353-366. doi.org/10.1037/a0022773
9. Mouratidis, A., Lens, W., & Vansteenkiste (2010). How you provide corrective feedback makes a difference: The motivating role of communicating in an autonomy-supporting way. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 32, 619-637. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.32.5.619
10. Mouratidis, A., Vansteenkiste, M., Lens, W., & Sideridis, G. (2008). The motivating role of positive feedback in sport and physical education: Evidence for a motivational model. Journal of Sport & Exercise, Psychology, 30, 240-268. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.30.2.240