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Stephanie Godleski

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
saggsh@rit.edu
585-475-2643
Office Location
EAS-2363

Stephanie Godleski

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts

Education

BA, Hamilton College; MA, Ph.D., University of Buffalo

Bio

Dr. Godleski's areas of expertise are within Clinical and Developmental Psychology. Her research focuses on developmental pathways to risk and resilience, particularly within early development from pregnancy to early childhood. She is interested in how parent and family influences (e.g., parental substance use, discipline, etc) impact children’s social-emotional developmental and health outcomes.

saggsh@rit.edu
585-475-2643
Personal Links
Personal Website
Areas of Expertise
Prenatal Substance Exposure
Social and Emotional Development
Developmental Psychopathology
Parenting
Early Childhood

Select Scholarship

Journal Paper
Godleski, Stephanie, et al. "Social and behavioral vulnerability, pregnancy, and negative mental health outcomes in the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic." AIMS Public Health 9. 2 (2022): 331-341. Print.
Nowalis, Sarah, Stephanie Godleski, and Lindsay Schenkel. "Attachment as a Moderator in the Relation Between Child Maltreatment and Symptoms of Depression." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 37. (2022): NP1516-NP1543. Print.
Ostrov, Jamie, et al. "Development of bullying and victimization: An examination of risk and protective factors in a high-risk sample." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 37. (2022): 5958-5984. Print.
Zhao, Junru, et al. "Child exposure to community violence in an at-risk sample: Developmental trajectories, caregiving risks, and the role of child temperament." Psychology of Violence 12. 6 (2022): 382-392. Print.
Godleski, Stephanie, et al. "Developmental pathways from prenatal substance exposure to reactive aggression." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 83. (2022): 101474. Web.
Godleski, Stephanie, Brenda Abu, and Ammina Kothari. "A qualitative needs assessment and analysis of perceptions of a mobile health app for low-income, at-risk mothers." Journal of Technology in Behavior Science 6. (2021): 100-105. Print.
Perry, Kristin, et al. "Pathways from early family violence to adolescent reactive aggression and violence victimization." Journal of Family Violence 36. (2021): 75-86. Print.
Ostlund, Brendan, et al. "Prenatal substance exposure and maternal hostility from pregnancy to toddlerhood: Associations with temperament profiles at 16-months of age." Development and Psychopathology 33. (2021): 1566-1583. Print.
Schuetze, Pamela, Stephanie Godleski, and Jenna Sassaman. "Prenatal opiate exposure and postnatal caregiving." Neurotoxicology and Teratology 87. (2021): 107019. Web.
Godleski, Stephanie, et al. "Maternal Smoking and Psychosocial Functioning: Impact on Subsequent Breastfeeding Practices." Breastfeeding Medicine 15. 4 (2020): 246-253. Print.
Nickerson, Amanda, et al. "A Longitudinal Study of Gun Violence Attitudes: Role of Childhood Aggression and Exposure to Violence, and Early Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Victimization." Journal of School Violence 19. (2020): 62-76. Print.
Kothari, Ammina, Stephanie Godleski, and Brenda Abu. "Mobile-based consortium of parenting resources for low-income/underserved mothers and caregivers: App development, testing and lessons learned." Health and Technology 10. (2020): 1603-1608. Print.
Eiden, Rina, et al. "Risk and resilience in the development of substance use problems in early adolescence." Adversity and Resilience Science 1. (2020): 107-119. Print.
Godleski, Stephanie, et al. "Etiological Pathways to Rejection Sensitivity in a High Risk Sample." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 45. 5 (2019): 715-727. Print.
Godleski, Stephanie, Barbara Lohse, and Jodi Stott. "Confirmatory Factor Analyses Support a 4-Factor Structure of the Satter Eating Competence Inventory and Migration of an Internal Regulation Item to the Eating Attitudes subscale." Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 51. 8 (2019): 1003-1010. Print.
Godleski, Stephanie, et al. "Co-use of tobacco and marijuana during pregnancy: Pathways to externalizing behavior problems in early childhood." Neurotoxicology and Teratology 69. (2018): 39-48. Print.
Godleski, Stephanie, Cory Crane, and Kenneth Leonard. "Parents’ Concordant and Discordant Alcohol Use and Subsequent Child Behavioral Outcomes." Addictive Behaviors 79. (2018): 81-85. Print.
Przybyla, Sarahmona M, et al. "Meta-Analysis of Alcohol and Serodiscordant Condomless Sex Among People Living With HIV." Archives of Sexual Behavior. (2017): 1-16. Web.
Book Chapter
Shisler, Shannon, et al. "Salivary bioscience research related to prenatal adversity." Salivary Bioscience: Foundations of Interdisciplinary Saliva Research and Applications. Ed. M.K. Taylor and D.A. Granger. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. 611-640. Print.
Godleski, Stephanie and Rina Eiden. "Fathers’ Antisocial Behavior and Early Childhood." Handbook on Fathers and Child Development: Prenatal to Preschool. Ed. H.E. Fitzgerald, et al. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. 569-580. Print.
Godleski, Stephanie and Kenneth Leonard. "Substance use and Substance Problems in Families: How Families Impact and are Impact by Substance use." American Psychological Association Handbook of Contemporary Family Psychology. Ed. B. Fiese. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2019. 587-602. Print.
Godleski, Stephanie. "Theoretical Perspectives to Studying the Development of Relational Aggression." The Development of Relational Aggression. Ed. Jamie M. Ostrov and Sarah Coyne. New York, NY: Oxford Press, 2018. 76-89. Print.
Published Conference Proceedings
Joslyn, Emily and Stephanie Godleski. "The Effect of Maternal Substance use on Child Aggression." Proceedings of the Developmental Neurotoxicology, Clearwater Beach, FL June 23–27, 2018. Ed. Dr. Gale Richardson. Oxford, England: Elsevier, 2018. Web.
Godleski, Stephanie, et al. "Co-use of Tobacco and Marijuana During Pregnancy: Pathways to Externalizing Behavior Problems in Early Childhood." Proceedings of the Developmental Neurotoxicology, Clearwater Beach, FL; June 23-27, 2018. Ed. Dr. Gale Richardson. Oxford, England: Elsevier, 2018. Web.
Godleski, Stephanie and Kimberly Kamper-DeMarco. "Maternal Alcohol and Tobacco use During Pregnancy: The Role of Mental Health and age of Initiation." Proceedings of the Research Society on Alcoholism, San Diego, CA; June 16-20, 2018. Ed. Henry R. Kranzler, M.D. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2018. Web.
Eiden, Rina, et al. "Early Childhood Risk and Protective Factors Predicting Resilience Against Adolescent Substance use." Proceedings of the Research Society on Alcoholism, San Diego, CA; June 16-20, 2018. Ed. Henry R. Kranzler, M.D. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2018. Web.
Godleski, Stephanie and Cory Crane. "Alcohol Problems and Aggression: Comparing Hearing and Deaf or Hard-of-hearing College Students." Proceedings of the Research Society on Alcoholism, San Diego, CA; June 16-20, 2018. Ed. Henry R. Kranzler, M.D. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2018. Web.
Crane, Cory and Stephanie Godleski. "Gender Dfferences in the Association Between Problematic Alcohol use and Cyber Aggression." Proceedings of the Research Society on Alcoholism, San Diego, CA; June 16-20, 2018. Ed. Henry R. Kranzler, M.D. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2018. Web.
Godleski, Stephanie and Rina Eiden. "Maternal Prenatal and Postnatal Alcohol use, Dysregulation, and Postnatal Alcohol use." Proceedings of the Research Society on Alcoholism, San Diego, CA; June 16-20, 2018. Ed. Henry R. Kranzler, M.D. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2018. Web.

Currently Teaching

PSYC-502
Seminar in Psychology
3 Credits
This course is intended for students in the psychology major to integrate material covered in earlier courses and examine broad topics in Psychology. The specific topics covered will vary from semester to semester. This course is an opportunity for faculty and students to examine issues that transcend sub-disciplines in psychology. Students will read original research and examine influential theories relevant to the topic.
PSYC-717
Advanced Graduate Statistics
3 Credits
This course introduces students to more advanced inferential parametric and non-parametric data-analysis techniques commonly used in psychological research, but not covered (or not covered in depth) in the Graduate Statistics course. These techniques may include, but are not limited to: Reliability Analysis, Multiple Regression, Discriminant Analysis, Logistic Regression, Factor Analysis, Analysis of Covariance, Multivariate Analysis of Variance, Contrast Analysis, Mediator and Moderator Variable Analysis, Non-Parametric Tests, and Multi-level Modeling. The focus is on the conceptual understanding of these statistics, how different statistical procedures are applied in different research methods, how to perform analyses, how to interpret the results in the context of the research question, and how to communicate these results.

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