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Michelle Fortier

Publications

• Fortier, M.S., Kowal, J., Lemyre, L., & Orpana, H. (in press). Intentions and Actual Physical Activity Behavior Change in a Community-Based Sample of Middle-aged Women: Contributions from the Theory of Planned Behavior and Self-Determination Theory. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 43 pages.
• Fortier, M.S., Williams, G.C., Sweet, S.N., Patrick, H. (in press). Self-Determination theory process models for health behaviour change: Applications to tobacco dependence treatment and physical activity counseling. In R.J. Diclemente, R.A. Crosby, M.C. Kegler (Eds.), Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research: Strategies for Improving Public Health (2nd Ed.), 39 pages.
• Fortier, M.S., & Farrell, R. (in press). Comparing the self-determination and body image of "excessive" versus "healthy" exercisers. The Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 34 pages.
• Fortier, M.S. & Kowal, J. (2007). The Flow State and Physical Activity Behaviour Change as Motivational Outcomes: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective.  In M. Hagger and N. Chatzisarantis (Ed). Self-Determination Theory in Exercise and Sport, 113-126. Champaign : Human Kinetics.
• Fortier, M.S., Hogg, W., O’Sullivan, T., Blanchard, C., Reid, R., Sigal, R., Boulay, P., Doucet, E, Sweet, S., Bisson, E., & Beaulac, J.  (2007). The Physical activity Counseling (PAC) trial: Rationale, methods and interventions.  Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 32, 1170-1185.
• Chris M. Blanchard, Michelle Fortier, Shane Sweet, Tracey O’Sullivan, William Hogg, Robert. D. Reid & Ron Sigal.  (2007). Explaining Physical Activity Levels From a Self-efficacy Perspective: The Physical Activity Counseling Trial. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 34(3), 323-328.
• Ronald J. Sigal, Glen P. Kenny, Normand G. Boulé, Penny Phillips, Denis Prud’homme, Michelle Fortier, Robert D. Reid, James Jaffey, Douglas Coyle,  Alison Jennings, Heather Tulloch & George A. Wells.  (2007). Effects of aerobic exercise training, resistance exercise training, and their combination on glycemic control in Type 2 Diabetes:  The diabetes aerobic and resistance exercise (DARE) trial.  Annals of Internal Medicine, 147, 357-369.
• Fortier, M.S., Sweet, S., O’Sullivan, T. & Williams, G., (2007). A self-determination process model of physical activity adoption in the context of a randomized controlled trial. Psychology of Sport and Exercise.  vol 8, 741-757.
• Kowal, J., & Fortier, M.S. (2007). Physical activity behaviour change in a community-based sample of adult women: The role of barriers and environmental characteristics. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 30, 233-242. 
• Fortier, M.S., Tulloch, H. & Hogg, W.  (2006). A good fit: Integrating physical activity counselors into family practice. Canadian Family Physician, vol 52, 947-951. 
• Tulloch, H., Fortier, M. & Hogg, W. (2006). Physical activity counseling in primary care: who has and who should counsel? Patient Education and Counseling, vol 64, 6-20. 
• Pelletier, L.G., Fortier, M.S., Vallerand, R.J & Brière, N.M.  (2001). Associations            between perceived autonomy support, forms of self-regulation and persistence: A longitudinal study.  Motivation and Emotion, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 279-306. 
• Kowal, J. & Fortier, M.S. (2000). Testing relationships from the hierarchical model of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation using flow as a motivational consequence.  Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 171-181.
• Kowal, J. & Fortier, M.S. (1999). Motivational determinants of flow: Contributions from Self-Determination Theory.  Journal of Social Psychology,  139, 355-368.  
• Vallerand, R.J. & Fortier, M.S. (1998).  Measures of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in sport and physical activity:  A review and critique.  In J.L. Duda (Ed).  Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology Measurement.

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