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Manganelli, L., & Forest, J. (2022). Using Self-Determination Theory to understand when and how money buys happiness: A cross-sectional and intervention study. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 17, 31-56. doi: 10.1007/s11482-020-09875-6

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Huyghebaert-Zouaghi, T., Morin, A. J. S., Forest, J., Fouquereau, E., & Gillet, N. (2022). A longitudinal examination of nurses’ need satisfaction profiles: A latent transition analysis. Current Psychology, 41, 4837-4859. doi: 10.1007/s12144-020-00972-1

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Dubord, M-A. G., Forest, J., BalčiĆ«naitė, L. M., Rauen, E., & Jungert, T. (2022). The power of strength-oriented feedback enlightened by self-determination theory: a positive technology-based intervention. Journal of Happiness Studies, Advance Online doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00524-3

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Forest, J., Van den Broeck, A., Van Coillie, H., & Mueller, M. B. (2022). Libérer la motivation. : .

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Gagné, M., & Forest, J. (2020). Financial incentives to promote optimal work motivation: Mission impossible?. The Journal of Total Rewards, Q4, 36-47.

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Thibault Landry, A., Zhang, Y., Papaschristopoulos, K., & Forest, J. (2020). Applying self‐determination theory to understand the motivational impact of cash rewards: New evidence from lab experiments. International Journal of Psychology, 55(3), 487-498. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12612

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Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Forest, J., Chen, Z., & Li, H. (2019). A Dynamic Computational Model of employees’ goal transformation using Self-Determination Theory. Motivation and Emotion, 43(3), 447-460. doi: 10.1007/s11031-019-09753-1

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Maganelli, L., Thibault Landry, A., Forest, J., & Carpentier, J. (2018). Self-determination theory can help you generate performance and well-being in the workplace: A review of the literature. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 20(2), 227-240. doi: 10.1177/1523422318757210

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Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Forest, J., & Chen, C. (2018). The negative and positive effects of employees’ innovative behaviors: Role of goals of employees and supervisors. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(1871) doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01871

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Ho, V. T., Kong, D. T., Lee, C.-H., Dubreuil, P., & Forest, J. (2018). Promoting harmonious passion at work: A three-nation investigation of intrinsic motivation and the compensatory role of cooperative psychological climate. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 106, 112-125. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2018.01.005

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Girouard, S., & Forest, J. (2018). A career path leading to well-being and success. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences doi: 10.1002/cjas.1488

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Thibault Landry, A., Egan, R., Crevier-Braud, L., Manganelli, L., & Forest, J. (2018). An empirical investigation of the Employee Work Passion Appraisal model using Self-Determination Theory. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 20(2), 148-168. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422318756636

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Howard, J., Gagné, M., Morin, A.J.S., & Forest, J. (2018). Using Bifactor-Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling to Test for a Continuum Structure of Motivation. Journal of Management, 44(7), 2638-2664. doi: 10.1177/0149206316645653

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Bureau, J.S., Mageau, G. A., Morin, A.J.S., Gagné, M., Forest, J., Papachristopoulos, K., Lucas, A., Thibault Landry, A., & Parenteau, C. (2018). Promoting autonomy to reduce employee deviance: The mediating role of identified motivation. International Journal of Business and Management, 13(5) doi: 10.5539/ijbm.v13n5p61

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Bureau, J.S., Mageau, G. A., Morin, A.J.S., Forest, J., Gagné, M., Papachristopoulos, K., Lucas, A., Thibault-Landry, A., & Parenteau, C. (2018). Promoting autonomy to reduce employee deviance: The mediating role of identified motivation. International Journal of Business and Management, 13, 61-71. doi: 10.5539/ijbm.v13n5p61

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Dubreuil, P., & Forest, J. (2017). Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life: A strengths-based leadership approach to optimal functioning at work. In K. Kelloway, K., Nielsen, & J. Dimoff (Eds.), Leading to Occupational Health and Safety (pp. 281-306). Toronto: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Thibault-Landry, A., Gagné, M., Forest, J., Guerrero, S., Séguin, M., & Papachristopoulos, K. (2017). The Relation Between Financial Incentives, Motivation, and Performance: An Integrative SDT-Based Investigation. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 16, 61-76. doi: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000182

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Lalande, D. R., Vallerand, R. J., LafreniĂšre, M.-A. K., Verner-Filion, J., Laurent, F.-A., Forest, J., & Paquet, Y. (2017). Obsessive passion: A compensatory response to unsatisfied needs. Journal of Personality, 85(2), 163-178. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12229

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Thibault Landry, A., Kindlein, J., Trépanier, S.-G., Forest, J., Zigarmi, D., Houson, D., & Brodbeck, F. C (2016). Why individuals want money matters: Using self-determination theory to explain the differential relations between motives for making money and employee psychological health. Motivation and Emotion, 40, 226-242. doi: 10.1007/s11031-015-9532-8

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Kuvaas, B., Buch, R., Gagné, M., Dysvik, A., & Forest, J. (2016). Do you get what you pay for? Sales incentives and implications for motivation and changes in turnover intention and work effort. Motivation and Emotion, 40, 667-680. doi: 10.1007/s11031-016-9574-6

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Spehar, I., Forest, J., & Stenseng, F. (2016). Passion for work, job satisfaction, and the mediating role of belongingness. Journal of Organizational Psychology, 8, 17-26.

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Trépanier, S.-G., Forest, J., Fernet, C., & Austin, S. (2015). On the psychological and motivational processes linking job characteristics to employee functioning: Insights from self-determination theory. Work and Stress, 29, 286-305. doi: 10.1080/02678373.2015.1074957

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Gillet, N., Forest, J., Benabou, C., & Bentein, K. (2015). The effects of organizational factors, psychological need satisfaction and thwarting, and affective commitment on workers’ well-being and turnover intentions. Le Travail Humain, 78, 119-140. doi: 10.3917/th.782.0119

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Gillet, N., Forest, J., Girouard, S., & Crevier-Braud, L. (2015). Justice organisationnelle et intentions de quitter: Le rĂŽle mĂ©diateur du bien-ĂȘtre eudĂ©monique. Revue QuĂ©bĂ©coise de Psychologie, 36, 127-144.

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Stenseng, F., Forest, J., & Curran, T. (2015). Positive emotions in recreational sport activities: The role of passion and belongingness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 16, 1117-1129. doi: 10.1007/s10902-014-9547-y

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Olafsen, A. H., Halvari, H., Forest, J., & Deci, E. L. (2015). Show them the money? The role of pay, autonomy support, and justice in a self-determination theory model of intrinsic work motivation. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 56(4), 447-457. doi: 0.1111/sjop.12211

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GagnĂ©, M., Chemolli, E., & Forest, J. (2015). Les mĂ©thodologies associĂ©es Ă  la TAD. In Y. Paquet, N. Carbonneau, & R. J. Vallerand (Eds.), ThĂ©orie de l’autodĂ©termination : Aspects thĂ©oriques et appliquĂ©s (pp. 33-58). Bruxelles: De Boeck.

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Fernet, C., Austin, S., GagnĂ©, M., & Forest, J. (2015). Extending the scope of the motivational effect of transformational leadership on employee functioning: The role of employees’ perceived job characteristics and motivation. Work and Stress, 29, 11-31. doi: 10.1080/02678373.2014.1003998

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Fernet, C., TrĂ©panier, S.-G., Austin, S., GagnĂ©, M., & Forest, J. (2015). Transformational leadership and optimal functioning at work: On the mediating role of employees’ perceived job characteristics and motivation. Work and Stress, 29, 11-31. doi: 10.1080/02678373.2014.1003998

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Mageau, G. A., Ranger, F., Joussemet, M., Koestner, R., Moreau, E., & Forest, J. (2015). Validation of the Perceived Parental Autonomy Support Scale (P-PASS). Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 47, 251-262. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039325

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Gagné, M., Olafsen, A. H., Forest, J., Vansteenkiste, M., Crevier-Braud, L., Van den Broeck, A, Aspeli, A. K., Bellerose, J, Benabou, C., & . . . (2015). The Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale: Validation evidence in seven languages and nine countries. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 24, 178-196. doi: 10.1080/1359432X.2013.877892

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Dubreuil, P., Forest, J., & Courcy, F. (2014). From strengths use to work performance: The role of harmonious passion, subjective vitality, and concentration. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 9, 335-349. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2014.898318

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Dagenais-Desmarais, V., Forest, J., Girouard, S., & Crevier-Braud, L. (2014). The importance of need supportive relationships for motivation and well-being at work. In N. Weinstein (Ed.), Human motivation and interpersonal relationship: Theory, research, and application (pp. 263-297). Netherlands: Springer.

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Vallerand, R. J., Houlfort, N., & Forest, J. (2014). Passion for work: Determinants and outcomes. In M. Gagné (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory (pp. 85-105). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Forest, J., Gilbert, M.-H, Beaulieu, G., Le Brock, P., & Gagné, M. (2014). Translating research results in economic terms: An application of economic utility analysis using SDT-based interventions. In M. Gagné (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory (pp. 335-346). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Trépanier, S.-G., Fernet, C., Austin, S., Forest, J., & Vallerand, R. J. (2014). Linking job demands and resources to burnout and work engagement: Does passion for work underlie these differential relationships?. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 353-366. doi: 10.1007/s11031-013-9384-z

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Gillet, N., Fouquereau, E., Forest, J., Brunault, P., & Colombat, P. (2012). The impact of organizational factors on psychological needs and their relations with well-being. Journal of Business and Psychology, 27, 437-450. doi: 10.1007/s10869-011-9253-2

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Forest, J., Mageau, G. A., Crevier-Braud, L., Dubreuil, P., Bergeron, E., & Lavigne, G. L. (2012). Harmonious passion as an explanation of the relation between signature strengths’ use and well-being at work: Test of an intervention program. Human Relations, 65, 1233-1252. doi:

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Brien, M., Forest, J., Mageau, G. A., Boudrias, J. S., Desrumaux, P., Brunet, L., & Morin, E. (2012). The basic psychological needs at work scale: Measurement invariance between Canada and France. Applied Psychology: Heath and Well-Being, 4(2), 167-187. doi: 10.1111/j.1758-0854.2012.01067.x

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Forest, J., Mageau, G. A., Sarrazin, P., & Morin, E. M. (2011). “Work is my passion”: The different affective, behavioural, and cognitive consequences of harmonious and obsessive passion toward work. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 28, 27–40. doi: 10.1002/CJAS.170

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Benabou, C., Gagné, M., & Forest, J. (2010). Culture temporelle des organisations, motivation autonome et flow. In Duyck, J. Y., & Vilette, M. A. (Eds.), Temps du travail et GRH (pp. 211-227). Paris, France: Vuibert.

Forest, J., Dagenais-Desmarais, V., Crevier-Braud, L., Bergeron, E., & Girouard, S. (2010). Le lien entre la santĂ© mentale et la satisfaction des besoins d’autonomie, de compĂ©tence et d’affiliation sociale. Gestion, 35, 20-26.

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GagnĂ©, M., Forest, J., Gilbert, M. H., AubĂ©, C., Morin, E., & Malorni, A. (2010). The motivation at work scale: Validation evidence in two languages. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 70, 628–646.

Gagné, M., & Forest, J. (2009). La motivation au travail selon la theorie de l-autodetermination, Volume 3. In P. Roussel, J. Rojot, & C. Vandenberghe (Eds.), Comportement organisationnel (pp. 215-234). Bruxelles, Belgium: Editions De Boeck.

GagnĂ©, M., & Forest, J. (2009). La motivation au travail selon la thĂ©orie de l’autodĂ©termination. In J. Rojot, C. Vandenberghe, & P. Roussel (Eds.), Comportement organisationnel – Volume 3 : ThĂ©orie des organisations, motivation au travail, engagement dans l’organisation (pp. 215-234). Bruxelles, Belgium: De Boeck.

Forest, J., Crevier-Braud, L., & Gagné, M. (2009). Mieux comprendre la motivation au travail. Effectif, 12, 23-27.

GagnĂ©, M., & Forest, J. (2008). The study of compensation systems through the lens of self-determination theory: Reconciling 35 years of debate. Canadian Psychology, 49, 225–232.

Gagné, M., Chemolli, E., Forest, J., & Koestner, R. (2008). The temporal relations between work motivation and organizational commitment. Psychologica Belgica, 48, 219-241.

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Gagné, M., Chemolli, E., Forest, J., & Koestner, R. (2008). A temporal analysis of the relation between organisational commitment and work motivation. Psychologica Belgica, 48, 219-241.

Forest, J., & Mageau, G. A. (2008). La motivation au travail selon la thĂ©orie de l’autodĂ©termination. Psychologie QuĂ©bec, 25, 33-36.