Dylan Aguirre
Dylan Aguirre is a fourth-year transfer majoring in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science. His proposed study seeks to address two aims investigating if immigrant generation predicts mental health stigma and help-seeking behavior in schools, as well as whether this relationship differs across Latinx youth. The first aim examines whether immigrant generation (first or second generation) predicts mental health stigma in school-based settings, and whether this relationship differs across Latinx youth. The second aim examines whether immigrant generation predicts help-seeking from mental health professionals in school-based settings, and whether these relationships differ across Latinx youth. By examining stigma and mental health help-seeking in a racial/ethnic minority sample, he hopes to better understand how to increase immigrant youth access to mental health services. Dylan hypothesizes that immigrant generation will significantly predict mental health stigma in schools in that second-generation youth report greater stigma towards mental health than first generation youth. However, he expects this relationship to be moderated by race/ethnicity such that second generation Latinx youth report greater mental health stigma than first generation youth. He also hypothesizes that immigrant generation will significantly predict help-seeking from mental health professionals in that first-generation youth will be more likely to engage in help-seeking than second generation youth. However, Dylan expects this relationship to be moderated by race/ethnicity such that second generation Latinx youth report lower likelihood of help-seeking than first generation youth.