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27 Deviant Behav. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/devbh27 and id is 1 raw text is: Deviant Behavior, 27: 1-30, 2006 Copyright () Taylor & Francis LLC Routledge ISSN: 0163-9625 print/1521-0456 online 2 Taylor&FrancisGroup DOl:10.1080/016396290968371 carrying the weight of self-derogation? disordered eating practices as social deviance in young adults Lacey Sischo, John Taylor, and Patricia Yancey Martin Florida State University, Department of Sociology, Tallahassee, Florida, USA This study asks if self-derogation in early adolescence increases the odds of adopting disordered eating practices (DEPs) in young adulthood. Using a racially/ethnically diverse random sample of 1,209 youth, our (longitudinal) data show that both boys and girls who disliked themselves at age 13 were more likely to adopt disordered eating practices at age 22. Following Kaplan's theory ofdeviance, we view disordered eating as a form of internally directed deviance that youth may adopt in an effort to correct for negative self-feelings. We find that girls/women adopt DEPs more than boys/men do, although this is not true for African Americans. Family socioeconomic status fails to predict DEPs. Exploratory analyses aimed at understanding connections between self-derogation and DEPs show that perceptions about weight matter. In particular, women who are more anxious about their weight are more apt to engage in DEPs (compared to less anxious women). Our study Received 2 November 2004; accepted 28 February 2005 This work is supported by Grant 5 RO1 DA 10772 from The National Institute on Drug Abuse to R. Jay Turner. Address correspondence to Lacey Sischo, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, 573 Bellamy Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2270. E-mail: les02g@fsu.edu I

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