Chrystal Vergara-Lopez
Biographic Data
| ID | 163974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chrystal Vergara-Lopez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chrystal |
| FAMILY NAME | Vergara-Lopez |
| SIGNATURE | VERGARA-LOPEZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0445-1074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Replication of the Police and Law Enforcement (PLE) Scale and extension to intersectional race/ethnicity and gender identity groupings
While this measure necessitates latent variable statistics to be applied across intersectional identities, it shows adequate psychometric properties to be useful in research among Black, Latino, and White men, Black women and Latina women (but not White women). Last, police-based discrimination appears to be particularly linked to rumination among men. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Female adolescents’ early life stress and body mass index
INTRODUCTION: Early life stress is linked to childhood obesity. As children enter adolescence, early life stress may be associated with increased rejection sensitivity, resulting in activation of behavioral and physiological changes that contribute to higher body mass index (BMI). Understanding the potential influence of rejection sensitivity on the association between early life stress and BMI is important to examine in female adolescents. For t…
How can we build structural resilience? Integration of social-ecological and minority stress models
As the United States contends with racism and a social justice reckoning, the need to advance our understanding of how to build structural resilience continues to be pressing. This article proposes a culturally and structurally informed model of resilience for individuals with minoritized identities that integrates social-ecological and minority stress models. First, common stressors and traumas experienced by minoritized individuals at multiple …
Experiences of Discrimination and Alcohol Involvement Among Young Adults at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender
Although discrimination is an important social determinant of alcohol involvement, there is a dearth of research testing these associations across race/ethnicity and gender. This is an important research gap given that experiences of discrimination and therefore links with alcohol involvement may vary as a function race/ethnicity and gender intersectional identities. We tested for measurement invariance in discrimination and alcohol involvement a…
Exploring the Impact of Maternal and Paternal Acceptance on Adolescent Girls’ Emotion Regulation
Replication of the Police and Law Enforcement (PLE) Scale and extension to intersectional race/ethnicity and gender identity groupings
While this measure necessitates latent variable statistics to be applied across intersectional identities, it shows adequate psychometric properties to be useful in research among Black, Latino, and White men, Black women and Latina women (but not White women). Last, police-based discrimination appears to be particularly linked to rumination among men. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Exploring the Impact of Maternal and Paternal Acceptance on Adolescent Girls’ Emotion Regulation
Female adolescents’ early life stress and body mass index
INTRODUCTION: Early life stress is linked to childhood obesity. As children enter adolescence, early life stress may be associated with increased rejection sensitivity, resulting in activation of behavioral and physiological changes that contribute to higher body mass index (BMI). Understanding the potential influence of rejection sensitivity on the association between early life stress and BMI is important to examine in female adolescents. For t…
How can we build structural resilience? Integration of social-ecological and minority stress models
As the United States contends with racism and a social justice reckoning, the need to advance our understanding of how to build structural resilience continues to be pressing. This article proposes a culturally and structurally informed model of resilience for individuals with minoritized identities that integrates social-ecological and minority stress models. First, common stressors and traumas experienced by minoritized individuals at multiple …
Experiences of Discrimination and Alcohol Involvement Among Young Adults at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender
Although discrimination is an important social determinant of alcohol involvement, there is a dearth of research testing these associations across race/ethnicity and gender. This is an important research gap given that experiences of discrimination and therefore links with alcohol involvement may vary as a function race/ethnicity and gender intersectional identities. We tested for measurement invariance in discrimination and alcohol involvement a…
Replication of the Police and Law Enforcement (PLE) Scale and extension to intersectional race/ethnicity and gender identity groupings
While this measure necessitates latent variable statistics to be applied across intersectional identities, it shows adequate psychometric properties to be useful in research among Black, Latino, and White men, Black women and Latina women (but not White women). Last, police-based discrimination appears to be particularly linked to rumination among men. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Anger (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Race (biology (2 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (2 works) · White (mutation (2 works) · Acculturation (1 work) · Anxiety (1 work)