Nathan Bowling
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Nathan A. Bowling (Ph.D. 2005, Central Michigan University) is a Professor of Psychology in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology doctoral program at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include (a) occupational stress, (b) counterproductive work behavior, and (c) research participant carelessness. Dr. Bowling has authored 70 peer-reviewed articles, many of which have appeared in top-tier journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods. His research was featured in Joireman and Van Lange’s (2015) American Psychological Association book How to Publish High-Quality Research, he was included in Aguinis et al.’s (2017) list of the top 2% of most cited authors in I-O psychology textbooks, and he was listed in Ioannidis et al.’s (2020) database of the world’s most cited scientists. Dr. Bowling is a fellow of two professional organizations—the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). As a PI, Dr. Bowling has been awarded over $1M in external funding since 2021. He will begin his term as editor of the International Journal of Stress Management in January 2026.
Honors and Awards
- Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Health Psychology
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Organizational Behavior
- Personality, Individual Differences
Journal Articles:
- Bowling, N. A., & Beehr, T. A. (2016). Opponent process theory can help explain some effects of resilience. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 9, 486-490. doi: 10.1017/iop.2016.44
- Bowling, N. A., Huang, J. L., Bragg, C. B., Khazon, S., Liu, M., & Blackmore, C. E. (2016). Who cares and who is careless? Insufficient effort responding as a reflection of respondent personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 218-229. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000085
- Bowling, N. A., Khazon, S., Alarcon, G. M., Blackmore, C. E., Bragg, C. B., Hoepf, M. R., Barelka, A., Kennedy, K., Wang, Q., & Li, H. (2017). Building better measures of role ambiguity and role conflict: The validation of new role stressor scales. Work & Stress, 31, 1-23. doi: 10.1080/02678373.2017.1292563
- Bowling, N. A., Lyons, B. D., & Burns, G. N. (in press). Staying quiet or speaking out: Does peer reporting depend on the type of counterproductive work behavior witnessed? Journal of Personnel Psychology. doi: TBD.
- Bowling, N. A., Wagner, S. W., & Beehr, T. A. (2018). The Facet Satisfaction Scale: An effective affective measure of job satisfaction facets. Journal of Business and Psychology, 33, 383-403. doi: 10.1007/s10869-017-9499-4
- Bragg, C. B., & Bowling, N. A. (2018). Not all forms of misbehavior are created equal: Differential personality facet-counterproductive work behavior relations. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 26, 27-35. doi: 10.1111/ijsa.12200
- Gibson, A. M., & Bowling, N. A. (in press). The effects of questionnaire length and behavioral consequences on careless responding. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. doi: doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000526.
- Lyons, B. D., & Bowling, N. A. (2017). On the effectiveness of peer reporting policies: A person-situation perspective. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 32, 547-560. doi: 10.1108/JMP-04-2017-0147. Highly Commended 2018 Emerald Literati Award Winner.
- Wang, Q., & Bowling, N. A. (2016). A comparison of general and work-specific personality measures as predictors of organizational citizenship behavior. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 24, 172-188. doi: 10.1111/ijsa.12139
- Wang, Q., Bowling, N. A., Tian, Q, Alarcon, G. M., Kwan, H. K. (2018). Workplace harassment intensity and revenge: Mediation and moderation effects. Journal of Business Ethics, 151, 213-234. doi: 10.1007/s10551-016-3243-2
Courses Taught:
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Job Attitudes
- Non-Experimental Research Methods
- Organizational Psychology
- Personality
- Psychology of Happiness
Nathan Bowling
Department of Psychology
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
United States of America