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  1. Beyond WEIRD and White: Building a Globally Inclusive Science of Sport Leadership

    Article • August 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  2. Social cure goes global: Socioeconomic and cultural factors shape social identifications’ effects on wellbeing across 56 countries.

    Article • August 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  3. A systematic review of interventions for developing athletes as leaders

    Article • International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  4. Leadership in academia: Key leadership behaviours and roles of formal and peer leaders

    Article • Management in Education, December 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  5. A Systematic Review of Interventions for Developing Athletes as Leaders.

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  6. The relation between perceived need-supportive coaching behaviours, winning games, and team resilience: a longitudinal examination among basketball and soccer teams

    Article • International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  7. The Power of Peer Leaders: Exploring the Link between Peer Leadership Behaviors and Sustainable Work Outcomes

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  8. Unlocking the power of ‘us’: Longitudinal evidence that identity leadership predicts team functioning and athlete well-being

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  9. Athlete Leadership Development in Sport: A Systematic Scoping Review [Cochrane Library].

    Article • October 2022, CABI Publishing

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  10. Athlete Leadership Development in Sport: A Systematic Scoping Review [Embase.com].

    Article • October 2022, CABI Publishing

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  11. Athlete Leadership Development in Sport: A Systematic Scoping Review [Google Scholar].

    Article • October 2022, CABI Publishing

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  12. Athlete Leadership Development in Sport: A Systematic Scoping Review [OATD].

    Article • October 2022, CABI Publishing

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  13. Athlete Leadership Development in Sport: A Systematic Scoping Review [PQDT].

    Article • October 2022, CABI Publishing

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  14. Athlete Leadership Development in Sport: A Systematic Scoping Review (PubMed).

    Article • October 2022, CABI Publishing

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  15. Athlete Leadership Development in Sport: A Systematic Scoping Review (SPORTDiscus EBSCO).

    Article • October 2022, CABI Publishing

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  16. Athlete Leadership Development in Sport: A Systematic Scoping Review [Web of Science Core Collection].

    Article • August 2022, CABI Publishing

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  17. The impact of intra-team communication and support relationships on team identification and collective efficacy in elite team sport: a social network analysis

    Article • International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  18. Leading the way together: a cluster randomised controlled trial of the 5R Shared Leadership Program in older adult walking groups

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  19. Leadership

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  20. Innovation across cultures: Connecting leadership, identification, and creative behavior in organizations

    Article • Applied Psychology, March 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Lucas Monzani, Professor Katrien Fransen

  21. Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, March 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  22. Athlete Leadership Development Within Teams: Current Understanding and Future Directions

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  23. Does Fair Coach Behavior Predict the Quality of Athlete Leadership Among Belgian Volleyball and Basketball Players: The Vital Role of Team Identification and Task Cohesion

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  24. Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Lucas Monzani, Christine Roland-Levy, Professor Katrien Fransen

  25. When the final whistle blows: Social identity pathways support mental health and life satisfaction after retirement from competitive sport

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, November 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  26. Investigating shared leadership in elite sport

    Article • August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  27. Follow the leader: Identity leadership and moral behaviour in social situations among youth sport teammates

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, July 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  28. Harnessing the power of ‘us’: A randomized wait-list controlled trial of the 5R shared leadership development program (5RS) in basketball teams

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, May 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  29. Will the real leaders please stand up? The emergence of shared leadership in semi-professional soccer teams

    Article • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, March 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  30. Why the Chosen Ones May Not Always Be the Best Leaders: Criteria for Captain Selection as Predictors of Leadership Quality and Acceptance

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  31. Leadership development in sports teams

    Article • January 2021, Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  32. The Power of Empowerment: Predictors and Benefits of Shared Leadership in Organizations

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, November 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  33. All for us and us for all: Introducing the 5R Shared Leadership Program

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, November 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  34. The impact of identity leadership on team functioning and well-being in team sport: Is psychological safety the missing link?

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, November 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  35. Leading together towards a stronger ‘us’: An experimental test of the effectiveness of the 5R Shared Leadership Program (5RS) in basketball teams

    Article • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, August 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  36. Leadership and social identity

    Article • April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  37. Gender differences in the perceived impact that athlete leaders have on team member emotional states

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  38. Developing Effective on- and Off-Field Leadership in Elite Soccer

    Article • March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  39. Standing out from the crowd: Identifying the traits and behaviors that characterize high‐quality athlete leaders

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, January 2020, Wiley

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  40. Making ‘us’ better: High-quality athlete leadership relates to health and burnout in professional Australian football teams

    Article • European Journal of Sport Science, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen, Cliff Mallett, Filip Boen

  41. Unpicking the Emperor’s New Clothes: Perceived Attributes of the Captain in Sports Teams

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  42. Coaching the coach: Intervention effects on need-supportive coaching behavior and athlete motivation and engagement

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, July 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  43. From Autocracy to Empowerment: Teams with Shared Leadership Perceive their Coaches to be Better Leaders

    Article • Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen, Filip Boen

  44. How many leaders does it take to lead a sports team? The relationship between the number of leaders and the effectiveness of professional sports teams

    Article • PLOS One, June 2019, PLOS

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  45. Does Social Capital Benefit Older Adults’ Health and Well-Being? The Mediating Role of Physical Activity

    Article • Journal of Aging and Health, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Filip Boen, Professor Katrien Fransen

  46. Professional Rugby Coaches’ Perceptions of the Role of the Team Captain

    Article • The Sport Psychologist, March 2019, Human Kinetics

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  47. Adopting a helicopter-perspective towards motivating and demotivating coaching: A circumplex approach

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  48. An experiment on the impact of coaches’ and athlete leaders’ competence support on athletes’ motivation and performance

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, September 2018, Wiley

    Maarten Vansteenkiste , Professor Katrien Fransen

  49. The competence-supportive and competence-thwarting role of athlete leaders: An experimental test in a soccer context

    Article • PLOS One, July 2018, PLOS

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  50. Identity leadership going global: Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory across 20 countries

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, May 2018, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Gonzalez, Christine Roland-Levy, Prof. Lucas Monzani, Professor Katrien Fransen

  51. Can Cancellara Really be a <i>Flandrien</i>? Ethno-Cultural Identity Representation Predicts Regional Exclusivity of a Historically Contested Cycling Term

    Article • Psychologica Belgica, March 2018, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  52. The Emergence of Shared Leadership in Newly Formed Teams With an Initial Structure of Vertical Leadership: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Article • The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  53. The effect of descriptive age norms on the motivation to exercise among older adults

    Article • Health Promotion International, December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  54. The power of competence support: The impact of coaches and athlete leaders on intrinsic motivation and performance

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, August 2017, Wiley

    Professor Katrien Fransen, Filip Boen, Maarten Vansteenkiste

  55. Is perceived athlete leadership quality related to team effectiveness? A comparison of three professional sports teams.

    Article • August 2017, Center for Open Science

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  56. Who takes the lead? Social network analysis as pioneering tool to investigate shared leadership within sports teams.

    Article • August 2017, Center for Open Science

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  57. The myth of the team captain as principal leader: Extending the athlete leadership classification within sport teams.

    Article • August 2017, Center for Open Science

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  58. “Yes, we can!” review on team confidence in sports

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  59. Is perceived athlete leadership quality related to team effectiveness? A comparison of three professional sports teams

    Article • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  60. A Social Identity Approach to Leadership Development

    Article • Journal of Personnel Psychology, July 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  61. Sports psychology: maximizing team potential

    Article • May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  62. Development and validation of the Characteristics of Resilience in Sports Teams Inventory.

    Article • Sport Exercise and Performance Psychology, May 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  63. Characteristics of Resilience in Sports Teams Inventory

    Article • January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  64. Leading from the Centre: A Comprehensive Examination of the Relationship between Central Playing Positions and Leadership in Sport

    Article • PLOS One, December 2016, PLOS

    Cliff Mallett, Professor Katrien Fransen

  65. Leading from the top or leading from within? A comparison between coaches and athletes leadership as predictors of team identification, team confidence, and team cohesion

    Article • International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  66. An examination of the relationship between athlete leadership and cohesion using social network analysis

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  67. Athlete leadership in sport teams: Current understanding and future directions

    Article • International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  68. Athlete and Coach Leadership Quality Measure

    Article • January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  69. We will be champions: Leaders' confidence in ‘us’ inspires team members' team confidence and performance

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  70. Who takes the lead? Social network analysis as a pioneering tool to investigate shared leadership within sports teams

    Article • Social Networks, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  71. Perceived Sources of Team Confidence in Soccer and Basketball

    Article • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, July 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  72. The Art of Athlete Leadership: Identifying High-Quality Athlete Leadership at the Individual and Team Level Through Social Network Analysis

    Article • Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, June 2015, Human Kinetics

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  73. Believing in “us”: Exploring leaders’ capacity to enhance team confidence and performance by building a sense of shared social identity.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, March 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  74. Team Identification Measure

    Article • January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  75. The Impact of Athlete Leaders on Team Members’ Team Outcome Confidence: A Test of Mediation by Team Identification and Collective Efficacy

    Article • The Sport Psychologist, December 2014, Human Kinetics

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  76. Leadership as social identity management: Introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model

    Article • The Leadership Quarterly, October 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  77. Is team confidence the key to success? The reciprocal relation between collective efficacy, team outcome confidence, and perceptions of team performance during soccer games

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Jari Vanroy, Professor Katrien Fransen

  78. Happy but unhealthy: The relationship between social ties and health in an emerging network

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  79. The myth of the team captain as principal leader: extending the athlete leadership classification within sport teams

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  80. Identity Leadership Inventory

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  81. Observational Collective Efficacy Scale for Sports

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  82. “Yes, we can!”: Perceptions of collective efficacy sources in volleyball

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Katrien Fransen

  83. Do perceived justice and need support of the coach predict team identification and cohesion? Testing their relative importance among top volleyball and handball players in Belgium and Norway

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, March 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Katrien Fransen