Niels Mertens

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

Katrien Fransen, Filip Boen, Maarten Vansteenkiste et al. · Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports · 2017 · 94 citations · Full text

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

Katrien Fransen, S. Alexander Haslam, Niklas K. Steffens et al. · Psychology of sport and exercise · 2020 · 81 citations · Full text

Service Leadership, Performance Studies, Community Leadership +11

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

Niels Mertens, Filip Boen, Niklas K. Steffens et al. · Journal of science and medicine in sport · 2020 · 45 citations · Full text

Performance Studies, High-performance Sport, Organizational Communication +12

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

Katrien Fransen, Niels Mertens, Stewart T. Cotterill et al. · Journal of Applied Sport Psychology · 2019 · 44 citations · Full text

Education, Own Leadership Status, Organizational Behavior +16

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

Catherine Haslam, Ben C. P. Lam, Jie Yang et al. · Psychology of sport and exercise · 2021 · 39 citations · Full text

Social Identity, Life Satisfaction, Sport Participation +14