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21 Deviant Behav. 1 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/devbh21 and id is 1 raw text is: Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 21: 1-13, 2000 & Copyright @ 2000 Taylor & Francis 0163-9625/00 $12.00 + .00 recounting the wages of self-appraised sinfulness: a research note on divorce, cohabitation, and guilt Thomas K. Pinhey Micronesian Area Research Center University of Guam Michael P. Perez Department of Sociology California State University Fullerton This study examines the conditional effects of self-appraised sinfulness for divorce and cohabitation on feelings of guilt among Guam's predominantly Roman Catholic, Asian-Pacific population. Self-appraised sinfulness is a form of stigma resulting from one's internalization of religious doctrine and also indicates the strength of an individual's theological belief. Due to Guam's apparent acceptance of cohabitation and the non-acceptance of divorce by the Catholic Church, we predicted that the effects of sinful self-appraisal would result in greater feelings of guilt for divorced respondents and significantly lower feelings of guilt for cohabiting respondents. Our tests supported our predictions. The Received 8 September 1997; accepted 15 December 1998. The data analyzed for this study were gathered for a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control, grant No. R48/CCR903111-03, in conjunction with the University of Hawaii's School of Public Health and international Center of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research. The initial data analysis was conducted as part of Public Health Foundation grant No. 179B-4-92. A version of this manuscript was presented at the October 1996 meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association in Little Rock, Arkansas. We wish to express our appreciation to Donna Lewis Pinhey, Dirk Ballendorf, Donald H. Rubinstein, and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions. Address correspondence to Michael P. Perez, California State University Fullerton, Depart- ment of Sociology, P.O. Box 6846, Fullerton, CA 92834-6846. E-mail: mperez@fullerton.edu I

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