Prof. Dr. Kathleen Otto

Contact Info:

Please send an e-mail to: kathleen.otto@staff.uni-marburg.de

Short biography:

• Full professor and head of the Work and Organizational Psychology unit at Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Practical experience as mediator, consultant and coach

Recent research interests:

• Dealing with organisational change and restructuring
• Career development, mobility and entrepreneurship
• Unemployment and job insecurity
• Organizational justice
• Leadership
• Work and health

Recent third-party funded projects:

• Parental work conditions as risk factor: Spillover-crossover from parents to children (COMPARE work)
• Identity processes and migration

Recent publications (selection):

Baluku, M. M., Bantu, E., Namale, B., & Otto, K. (2022). Maintaining high psychological wellbeing despite ambiguity intolerance among three employment status groups: Examining the buffering effects of locus of control and psychological capital. International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 7, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41042-021-00051-1

Cheng, Y., Nudelman, G., Otto, K., & Ma, J. (in press). Conceptualization, measurement and validation of an effort and valence based just world belief. European Journal of Personality Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000703

Geibel, H. V., Rigotti, T., & Otto, K. (2022). It all comes back to health: A three-wave cross-lagged study of leaders' well-being, team performance, and transformational leadership. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12877

Krug, H., Haslam, S. A., Otto, K., Safi, G., & Steffens, N. K. (2021). Doing it for the team: Soccer coaches’ identity leadership predicts players’ effort, turnover intentions, and performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.101947

Matick, E., Kottwitz, M. U., Rigotti, T., & Otto, K. (in press). I can't get no sleep: The role of leaders' health and leadership behavior. European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2077198

Nudelman, G., Kamble, S., & Otto, K. (2022). Using Protection Motivation Theory to Predict Adherence to COVID-19 Behavioral Guidelines. Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2021.2021383

Otto, K., Geibel, H. V., & Kleszewski, E. (2021). “Perfect leader, perfect leadership?”: Linking perfectionism to monitoring, transformational and servant leadership. Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 657394. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657394/full

All publications of Kathleen Otto can be found on ResearchGate!