Crear Lab

CREAR lab stands for Community Research Exploring Adolescent Resilience. Our research in this lab is oriented towards identifying factors that contribute to adolescents’ optimal well-being and resilience in the face of contextual risk factors, with a particular focus on community settings. Our program of research focuses on interpersonal and sociocultural influences on the academic and psychological well-being of adolescents (ages 11–18). Aims of this research include identifying factors that may act as protective in the face of violence (i.e, community violence exposure, sexual harassment, interpersonal violence). Protective factors of interest include cultural values like familismo, and dimensions of parent-adolescent relationships like parent-adolescent communication and parental involvement. While our lab has a particular interest in Latino/as in the U.S. and Mexico, we are interested in adolescents of color more broadly.