Reactance (psychology)

Reactance - unpleasant motivational reaction to offers, persons, rules, or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. Article "Reactance (psychology)" in English Wikipedia has 34.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Turkish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Reactance (psychology)", its content was written by 89 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 262 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in English Wikipedia and cited 135 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #30267 in November 2024
• Global: #85450 in December 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #75294 in March 2020
• Global: #57985 in March 2020

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) Reaktans (psikoloji)		39.7769
2	English (en) Reactance (psychology)		34.4997
3	German (de) Reaktanz (Psychologie)		32.0878
4	Hindi (hi) प्रतिक्रियात्मकता (मनोविज्ञान)		26.0472
5	French (fr) Réactance (psychologie)		25.2671
6	Czech (cs) Teorie reaktance		23.7943
7	Swedish (sv) Psykologisk reaktans		23.688
8	Korean (ko) 반발 이론		23.4903
9	Japanese (ja) 心理的リアクタンス		21.8409
10	Catalan (ca) Reactància (psicologia)		18.1986

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Reactance (psychology)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reactance (psychology)		1 148 222
2	German (de) Reaktanz (Psychologie)		834 928
3	Spanish (es) Reactancia (psicología)		441 806
4	French (fr) Réactance (psychologie)		179 217
5	Polish (pl) Reaktancja (psychologia)		146 424
6	Russian (ru) Реактивное сопротивление (психология)		64 928
7	Japanese (ja) 心理的リアクタンス		40 021
8	Greek (el) Θεωρία της ψυχολογικής αναδραστικότητας		24 181
9	Portuguese (pt) Reatância psicológica		23 248
10	Czech (cs) Teorie reaktance		12 843

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Reactance (psychology)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reactance (psychology)		6 112
2	German (de) Reaktanz (Psychologie)		2 027
3	French (fr) Réactance (psychologie)		825
4	Polish (pl) Reaktancja (psychologia)		521
5	Japanese (ja) 心理的リアクタンス		511
6	Spanish (es) Reactancia (psicología)		307
7	Russian (ru) Реактивное сопротивление (психология)		282
8	Turkish (tr) Reaktans (psikoloji)		107
9	Portuguese (pt) Reatância psicológica		73
10	Czech (cs) Teorie reaktance		71

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Reactance (psychology)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Reactance (psychology)		89
2	German (de) Reaktanz (Psychologie)		69
3	Spanish (es) Reactancia (psicología)		25
4	French (fr) Réactance (psychologie)		15
5	Polish (pl) Reaktancja (psychologia)		11
6	Russian (ru) Реактивное сопротивление (психология)		11
7	Greek (el) Θεωρία της ψυχολογικής αναδραστικότητας		10
8	Portuguese (pt) Reatância psicológica		6
9	Basque (eu) Erreaktantzia (psikologia)		5
10	Catalan (ca) Reactància (psicologia)		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Reactance (psychology)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Portuguese (pt) Reatância psicológica		1
2	Catalan (ca) Reactància (psicologia)		0
3	Czech (cs) Teorie reaktance		0
4	German (de) Reaktanz (Psychologie)		0
5	Greek (el) Θεωρία της ψυχολογικής αναδραστικότητας		0
6	English (en) Reactance (psychology)		0
7	Spanish (es) Reactancia (psicología)		0
8	Basque (eu) Erreaktantzia (psikologia)		0
9	French (fr) Réactance (psychologie)		0
10	Hindi (hi) प्रतिक्रियात्मकता (मनोविज्ञान)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Reactance (psychology)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Reaktanz (Psychologie)		45
2	English (en) Reactance (psychology)		40
3	French (fr) Réactance (psychologie)		11
4	Japanese (ja) 心理的リアクタンス		7
5	Russian (ru) Реактивное сопротивление (психология)		7
6	Spanish (es) Reactancia (psicología)		5
7	Turkish (tr) Reaktans (psikoloji)		5
8	Korean (ko) 반발 이론		4
9	Greek (el) Θεωρία της ψυχολογικής αναδραστικότητας		3
10	Polish (pl) Reaktancja (psychologia)		3

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Reactància (psicologia)
cs	Czech Teorie reaktance
de	German Reaktanz (Psychologie)
el	Greek Θεωρία της ψυχολογικής αναδραστικότητας
en	English Reactance (psychology)
es	Spanish Reactancia (psicología)
eu	Basque Erreaktantzia (psikologia)
fr	French Réactance (psychologie)
hi	Hindi प्रतिक्रियात्मकता (मनोविज्ञान)
ja	Japanese 心理的リアクタンス
ko	Korean 반발 이론
pl	Polish Reaktancja (psychologia)
pt	Portuguese Reatância psicológica
ru	Russian Реактивное сопротивление (психология)
sv	Swedish Psykologisk reaktans
tr	Turkish Reaktans (psikoloji)
uk	Ukrainian Реактивний опір (психологія)

Best Rank

English: #75294 03.2020

Global: #57985 03.2020

Best Rank

English: #30267 11.2024

Global: #85450 12.2020

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