Professional Bio

Madison is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program at Penn State working with Drs. Rina Eiden and Douglas Teti. She graduated from the University of Oregon with degrees in Psychology and Spanish in 2019. Madison’s research interests focus on pregnancy and parenting in the context of maternal substance use and experience of childhood maltreatment. Madison is currently investigating maternal mood and behavioral unpredictability as mechanisms of intergenerational risk transmission. Outcomes of interest include parenting quality and behavior and child physiological and behavioral reactivity and regulation. Madison uses structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, and growth mixture modeling to understand developmental cascades from prenatal influences to infancy and early childhood outcomes.