Dr. Catherine E. Bowen

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1 Dr. Catherine E. Bowen Education PhD Psychology Visiting Researcher Master of Science Bachelor of Arts Semester Abroad Structured PhD program, Productive Adult Development Special Distinction (highest honors) Advised by Ursula M. Staudinger Thesis title: Images of aging are related to the plasticity of adult development. Thesis comprised of critical theoretical integration of the age stereotype and developmental literatures as well as empirical work based on cross-sectional multi-level questionnaire data from employees. Umeå University, Sweden Population Dynamics and Public Policy Program (Ageing and Living Conditions) Associated PhD Student Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands Research Master, Human Behaviour in Social Contexts (Education) Cum laude (highest honors in the Netherlands) Coursework included statistics, research methods, psychology and sociology of education. Thesis title: The Power of I: Investigating the Potential of Individuation to Combat Stereotype Threat. Experimental research concerning gender gaps in mathematics. Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA Mathematics (academic major), Economics (academic minor) Summa cum laude (highest honors in the USA) University of Sydney, Australia

2 Dr. Catherine E. Bowen Page 2/6 Research Experience Research Associate Since International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg, Austria Current project: Individual-level predictors and cross-country differences in life expectancy preferences (i.e., how long people say they want to live). Postdoctoral Fellow Research Associate Research Consultant Research Intern Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development Research projects include work on images of aging, personality development, aging and the work context. Student mentoring; cooperation on proposal for third-party funding. Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development Cooperation in the conceptualization and realization of the demopass project ( in an interdisciplinary team. Developed questionnaires, collected, analyzed and presented data. Position involved considerable communication with firms. CITO Group, Arnhem, the Netherlands Wrote a 40-page paper for the Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA] Governing Board of the OECD regarding the potential for linking PISA with other major international educational assessments. CITO Group, Arnhem, the Netherlands Analyzed group differences (e.g., between boys and girls, socioeconomic status levels) and predictive factors of test achievement using multilevel regression models and data from over 150,000 Dutch elementary school students.

3 Dr. Catherine E. Bowen Page 3/6 Publications 2014 Bowen*, C. E., Kessler*, E.-M., & Agines, S. Attitudes towards seeking mental health services among older adults: Personal and contextual correlates. Submitted for publication. *Shared first authorship Bowen, C. E., Kornadt, A. & Kessler, E.-M. (2013). Altersbilder und Lebenslauf [Images of Aging and the Life Course]. In H. W. Wahl & A. Kruse (Eds.). Leben in Veränderung: Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Lebenslaufforschung [Changing Lives: Contributions of Interdisciplinary Lifecourse Research]. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. Bowen, C.E. & Skirbekk, V. (2013). National stereotypes of older people s competence are related to older people s participation in paid and volunteer work. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological and Social Sciences, 8(6): doi: /geronb/gbt101 Bowen, C. E. & Staudinger, U. M. (2013). Relationship between age and promotion orientation depends on perceived older worker stereotypes. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological and Social Sciences, 68(1), doi: /geronb/gbs Mühlig-Versen, A., Bowen, C.E. & Staudinger, U. M. (2012). Personality plasticity in later adulthood: Contextual and personal resources are needed to increase Openness to New Experiences. Psychology & Aging, 27(4), doi: /a Kessler, E.-M., Bowen, C. E., Baer, M., Frölich, L. & Wahl, H.-W. (2012). Dementia Worries: A psychological examination of an unexplored phenomenon. European Journal of Ageing, 9(4), doi: /s Bowen, C.E. & Staudinger, U. M. (2011). Die Bedeutung des Arbeitsklimas und seiner Facetten für das Personalmanagement im demografischen Wandel [The importance of organizational climate and its facets for human resource management during demographic change]. In U. M. Staudinger, B. Godde, H. Heidemeier et al. (Eds.), Den demografischen Wandel meistern: Eine Frage der Passung [Mastering Demographic Change: A Question of Fit] (pp ). Bielefeld, Germany: Bertelsmann.

4 Dr. Catherine E. Bowen Page 4/6 Staudinger, U. M., & Bowen, C. E. (2011). A systemic approach to aging in the work context. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung, 44 (4), Bowen, C.E. (2010). Images of aging are related to the plasticity of adult development. Bremen: Jacobs University Bremen. Available at ne&1%2c1%2c Bowen, C. E., Noack, C. M. G. & Staudinger, U. M. (2010). Aging in the work context. In K.W. Schaie & S. Willis (Eds.), Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (7th ed., pp ). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press. Kessler, E.-M., Schwender, C. & Bowen, C. (2010). The portrayal of older people s social participation on German prime-time TV advertisements. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 65B(1), doi: /geronb/gbp084 Staudinger, U. M. & Bowen, C. E. (2010). Lifespan perspectives on positive personality development. In M. Lamb & A. Freund (Eds.), Handbook of Life-span Development (Vol. 2, Social and Emotional Development, pp ). New York: Wiley & Sons. Selected Presentations and Talks So jung kommen wir nicht mehr zusammen [Never again will we come together so young]. Panelist together with Ministerpräsidentin Malu Dreyer and others at the opening discussion of the 39 th OpenOhr Festival in Mainz, Germany. June 18, Job satisfaction and job autonomy moderate the relationship between age and task performance. Presentation for the 65 th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA. November 14, Teilnahme älterer Menschen an bezahlter und ehrenamtlicher Arbeit und Einschätzungen der Kompetenz Älterer im Ländervergleich [Older people s participation in paid and volunteer work and perceptions of older people s competence across countries]. Presentation for the 48 th Annual Meeting of the German Psychological Society, Bielefeld, Germany. September 25, Does what they do make a difference? Indicators of older adults productivity and perceptions of older people. Presentation for the 64 th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA. November 21, Alt und dennoch jung: Wie die innere Einstellung das gefühlte Alter prägt [Old but still young: How inner attitudes influence how old people feel] (discussion topic). Guest on the radio talkshow Lebenszeit on Deutschlandfunk, broadcast live nationally. October 28, 2011.

5 Dr. Catherine E. Bowen Page 5/6 Older worker meta-stereotypes are related to working adults promotion orientation. Presentation for the 63 rd Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, LA. November 20, Altersbilder stehen mit der Motivationsorientierung erwerbstätiger Erwachsener in Beziehung [Images of aging are related to working adults motivational orientation]. Presentation for the 47 th annual meeting of the German Psychological Society, Bremen, Germany. September 28, Images of aging as a factor affecting the plasticity of adult development. Presentation for the Ageing and Living Conditions Research Group at Umeå University. March 8, Aging into the mold: Images of aging in the workplace. Presentation for the 62 nd meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Atlanta, GA. November 19, Arbeitszentralität älterer Mitarbeiter [The centrality of work for older workers]. Presentation at the annual conference of the German Society of Developmental Psychologists. September 14, Age stereotypes in developmental and organizational contexts. Presentation for the Psychology Colloquium at Jena University. June 10, 2009.