Misaki N Natsuaki

Biographic Data

ID1846809
NAMEMisaki N Natsuaki
GIVEN NAMESMisaki N
FAMILY NAMENatsuaki
SIGNATURENATSUAKI M N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Riverside
ORCID0000-0001-5585-7827
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS172
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • A Moderated Mediation Model to Predict Adolescent Resistance to Peer Influence: Evidence From an Adoption Study

    Open AccessLi Yu, Lindong Yu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2025

    Introduction Adolescents are particularly susceptible to peer influence and at higher risk of engaging in problematic behaviors through peer interactions, but also vary in the extent to which they are influenced by their peers. Resistance to peer influence, the tendency to refuse undesired peer pressure, is one key factor for this variation. However, how genetic and contextual influences shape the development of RPI remain unclear. Methods The pr…

  • Parasympathetic reactivity to recalled emotional experiences and adolescent prosociality

    Open AccessRyan T Hodge, Bonnie Klimes‐Dougan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2025References: 8

    Prosociality, which refers to dispositions to allocate one's attention and energy to the needs of others, is indicative of social proficiency and adaptive functioning in adolescence. Greater abilities for self-regulation in adolescence are widely considered to foster prosociality (Hastings et al., 2023; Hodge et al., 2023), including physiological regulation, and particularly activity within the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS; Hastings et al…

  • Connecting parents’ developmental history to family life: Marital instability after the journey of infertility for adoptive parents

    Open AccessJing Wang, Misaki N Natsuaki et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2025

    Parents bring their preparenthood experiences into their family relationships, which may have a persistent impact on family dynamics. One such significant experience is infertility, often shared by both partners but differentially experienced by women and men. Using a prospective longitudinal study of adoptive parents with a history of infertility challenges who later adopted a child ( N = 461, 91% White), we aimed to (a) examine the impact of pr…

  • Lability in parent–child warmth and hostility and adolescent externalizing behaviors

    Open AccessKristine Marceau, Sohee Lee et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2025

    Both longer term developmental changes (increases in hostility, decreases in warmth) and lability (year-to-year fluctuations) in parent-child relationship quality across childhood and adolescence have been linked to adolescent externalizing behaviors. Using a prospective longitudinal study of 561 children who were adopted into nonrelative families at birth (57% male, 56% White, 19% multiracial, 13% Black, 11% Hispanic) where parental warmth and h…

  • Women shaping behavioural science

    Open AccessQing Cai, Mar Hicks et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025References: 17

  • Evocative effects on the early caregiving environment of genetic factors underlying the development of intellectual and academic ability

    Open AccessChloe Austerberry, R M Pasco Fearon et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    This study examined gene–environment correlation (rGE) in intellectual and academic development in 561 U.S.-based adoptees (57% male; 56% non-Latinx White, 19% multiracial, 13% Black or African American, 11% Latinx) and their birth and adoptive parents between 2003 and 2017. Birth mother intellectual and academic performance predicted adoptive mother warmth at child age 6 (β = .14, p = .038) and 7 (β = .12, p = .040) but not 4.5 years, and adopti…

  • Disentangling genetic and environmental influences on early language development: The interplay of genetic propensity for negative emotionality and surgency, and parenting behavior effects on early la…

    Open AccessRachael W Cheung, Chloe Austerberry et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development. However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes common to parents and children. In 561 U.S. adoptees (57% male) and their birth and rearing parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, and 7% and 2% Latinx, respectively), this study demonstrated how genetic propensity for temperament affects language develop…

  • Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence

    Open AccessLue Williams, Veronica Oro et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Study findings suggest that intervening on modifiable bioecological stressors-including parenting behaviors and socioeconomic stressors-may provide important protective influences on children's internalizing symptom trajectories

  • Post-Adoption Perinatal Grief and Parenting Future Children in the Home: The Moderating Roles of Social Support and Parental Substance Use

    Erick V Perez, Misaki N Natsuaki et al.ARTICLEParenting2024References: 5

    Findings suggest that grief following adoption may result in effects that are sustained years later, including compromised relationships and low parenting satisfaction with the child they later raise, although social support may mitigate the potential negative effects of post-adoption perinatal grief on parental satisfaction. Future work should examine the mechanisms linking post-adoption perinatal grief with future parenting

  • Pubertal status and body image: An inquiry into experiences of adolescents in Ghana and Kenya

    Open AccessSheriffa Mahama, Karina Weichold et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2024Cited by: 1References: 10

    The current study uses a mixed method design to investigate Kenyan and Ghanaian adolescents' experiences of puberty, and the relations between gender, country of origin, pubertal status, and body image appraisals (N = 86; Ghana = 46, Kenya = 40, 52.9% female aged 13 and 14). Qualitative results revealed seven major themes; puberty means a universal period of growth and transition into adulthood but also evokes negative emotions of shame, anxiety,…

  • Integrating the family stress model within a longitudinal sibling‐adoption study of adolescent externalizing behavior

    Open AccessVeronica Oro, Elizabeth J S Bates et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2024References: 7

    Using a sample of linked adopted children, adoptive and birth parents (N = 561), and biological siblings residing in the birth parent home (N = 191), we examined the role of genetics within family stress processes. We tested parental hostility (7 years) as a mediator of the associations between socioeconomic strain and rearing parent psychopathology (4 years) and adolescent externalizing behaviors (11 years) in adoptive and biological parent home…

  • The effects of illicit drug use during pregnancy and parental hostility on problem behaviors in school-aged children over and above genetic influences

    Open AccessChang Liu, Leslie D Leve et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024

    Previous work has examined the impact of prenatal illicit drug use (PDU) on children's problem behaviors. However, many PDU-related risk factors, including genetic and rearing environmental risks, can also influence offspring's problem behaviors, thus confounding PDU, genetic, and rearing environmental influences. This study aimed to (a) identify effects of PDU on school-aged children's problem behaviors, including both externalizing and internal…

  • Examining timing effects in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety and depressive symptoms: A genetically informed study

    Open AccessTong Chen, T L Chen et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024Cited by: 1References: 6

    The present study examined genetic, prenatal, and postnatal environmental pathways in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety and depressive symptoms from parents to early adolescents (when these symptoms start to increase), while considering timing effects of exposure to parent anxiety and depressive symptoms postnatally. The sample was from the Early Growth and Development Study, including 561 adopted children (57% male, 55% White, 13% Bl…

  • Developmental trajectories of behavioral inhibition from infancy to age seven: The role of genetic and environmental risk for psychopathology

    Open AccessBerenice Anaya, Jenae M Neiderhiser et al.ARTICLEChild Development2023

    The present study leveraged data from a longitudinal adoption study of 361 families recruited between 2003 and 2010 in the United States. We investigated how psychopathology symptoms in birth parents (BP; M age = 24.1 years; 50.5–62.9% completed high school) and adoptive parents (AP; M age = 37.8 years; 80.9% completed college; 94% mother–father couples) influenced children's behavioral inhibition (BI) trajectories. We used latent growth models o…

  • Early manifestations of intellectual performance: Evidence that genetic effects on later academic test performance are mediated through verbal performance in early childhood

    Open AccessChloe Austerberry, R M Pasco Fearon et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    Intellectual performance is highly heritable and robustly predicts lifelong health and success but the earliest manifestations of genetic effects on this asset are not well understood. This study examined whether early executive function (EF) or verbal performance mediate genetic influences on subsequent intellectual performance, in 561 U.S.-based adoptees (57% male) and their birth and adoptive parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African Amer…

  • Reexamining the association between the interparental relationship and parent–child interactions: Incorporating heritable influences

    Open AccessAmanda M Ramos, Elizabeth A Shewark et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022References: 1

    Family systems research has identified two key processes (spillover and compensatory), linking interparental relationship quality to the parent-child relationship. However, previous research has focused on the parent as the sole initiator and had not often considered the role of the child in these processes. The present study adds to the literature by leveraging a genetically informed design to examine possible child evocative effects on spillove…

  • Prenatal programming of developmental trajectories for obesity risk and early pubertal timing

    Open AccessOlivia C Robertson, Kristine Marceau et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022References: 1

    The thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses are two developmental hypotheses that originated from the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) perspective. The DOHaD posits that exposures experienced prenatally and early in life may influence health outcomes through altering form and function of internal organs related to metabolic processes. Obesity risk and early pubertal timing might be influenced by similar mechanisms.…

  • Coping With the Pandemic: Implementing Social and Emotional Learning in the California K-12 School System

    Open AccessAgnes M Varghese, Misaki N NatsuakiARTICLEPolicy Insights from the…2021

    In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Among the massive shutdowns that occurred across the United States in response, all K-12 schools in California closed to protect the health of students. However, such a closure and its resulting consequences were associated with a host of negative mental health implications for youth. Furthermore, many of these youth may not have had adequate resources to tackle issu…

  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science

    Open AccessJune Gruber, Jane Mendle et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2021

    There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issu…

  • The role of child negative emotionality in parenting and child adjustment: Gene–environment interplay

    Open AccessElizabeth A Shewark, Amanda M Ramos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2021

    BACKGROUND: Evocative gene-environment correlation (rGE) describes a process through which children's heritable characteristics influence their rearing environments. The current study examined whether heritable influences on parenting and children's behavioural outcomes operate through child negative emotionality. METHOD: Using data from the Early Growth and Development Study, we examined associations among adoptive parent reports of child anger …

  • Learning as an Important Privilege: A Life Span Perspective with Implications for Successful Aging

    Open AccessRachel Wu, Jiaying Zhao et al.ARTICLEHuman Development2021

    Research has demonstrated the cognitive and mental health benefits of learning new skills and content across the life span, enhancing knowledge as well as cognitive performance. We argue that the importance of this learning – which is not available equally to all – goes beyond the cognitive and mental health benefits. Learning is important for not only the maintenance, but also enhancement of functional independence in a dynamic environment, such…

  • Do I Look Gawky? The Association between Pubertal Asynchrony and Peer Victimization

    Open AccessMisaki N Natsuaki, Sofia T Stepanyan et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    Pubertal synchrony is defined as the degree of coherence to which puberty-related body changes (e.g., breast development, growth spurt, voice change, underarm hair growth) are coordinated. During the pubertal transition, youth's body parts grow asynchronously, making each youth's physical appearance unique. Physical appearance is a known correlate of youth's psychosocial functioning during adolescence, but we know little about how pubertal asynch…

  • The role of negative emotionality in the development of child executive function and language abilities from toddlerhood to first grade: An adoption study

    Open AccessCamille C Cioffi, Amanda Griffin et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021References: 6

    Understanding the role of negative emotionality in the development of executive functioning (EF) and language skills can help identify developmental windows that may provide promising opportunities for intervention. In addition, because EF and language skills are, in part, genetically influenced, intergenerational transmission patterns are important to consider. The prospective parent-offspring adoption design used in this study provides a unique…

  • Early pubertal maturation and externalizing behaviors: Examination of peer delinquency as mediator and cognitive flexibility as a moderator

    Open AccessSofia T Stepanyan, Misaki N Natsuaki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2020

    INTRODUCTION: While peer delinquency is a known mediator between early pubertal timing and externalizing behaviors, little is known about factors that could protect against the adverse influence of peer delinquency. This study assesses the possible moderating role of cognitive flexibility, which is one index of executive functioning that facilitates flexible and adaptive responses to challenging situations. We assessed the interactive influence o…

  • Child Effects on Parental Negativity: The Role of Heritable and Prenatal Factors

    Open AccessChang Liu, Linying Ji et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    This study examined two possible mechanisms, evocative gene–environment correlation and prenatal factors, in accounting for child effects on parental negativity. Participants included 561 children adopted at birth, and their adoptive parents and birth parents within a prospective longitudinal adoption study. Findings indicated child effects on parental negativity, such that toddlers’ negative reactivity at 18 months was positively associated with…