[Development of CAS (Communion-Agency Scale): a measurement of positive and negative aspects of gender personality].

The purpose of this study was to construct a scale to measure both the positive and negative aspects of communion and agency, and to examine relationships among subscales. First, 264 undergraduates, both men and women, rated themselves on 40 items, and CAS (Communion-Agency Scale) was constructed, which consisted of four subscales with 6 items each. Second, 472 undergraduates, 303 women and 169 men, completed the scale, and were assigned, according to their scores on positive communion and agency, to one of four gender types: androgynous, masculine, feminine, and undifferentiated.

Comparison of French and Japanese individuals with reference to Hofstede's concepts of Individualism and Masculinity.

The purpose was to examine whether Japanese individuals were oriented toward collective and masculine values attributed to cultures by Hofstede by comparing them with those of French individuals. There were 110 French participants (54 men, 56 women) and 128 Japanese participants (41 men, 87 women), selected from undergraduate students, employed workers, housewives, and retirees. Their occupational proportion and their ranges of age were balanced in both countries.

[A comparison of two models of gender-related schematic processing].

An experiment was conducted to compare two models of gender-related schematic processing: Bem's gender schema theory (1981) and self-schema theory by Markus, Crane, Bernstein, and Saladi (1982). While the former argues for a construct that is unidimensional, the latter proposes separate masculine and feminine schemata. Two hundred and thirty-six college students (111 males and 125 females) completed Bem Sex Role Inventory, and then estimated subjective percentages of males and females who had each trait of BSRI.

A case of sick sinus syndrome in primary systemic amyloidosis.

A case of sick sinus syndrome due to primary systemic amyloidosis which involved mainly the heart and lungs is presented. The electrocardiogram showed various changes; low voltage, bradyarrhythmia with junctional escape beats, paroxysmal atrial tachyarrhythmia that terminates abruptly with subsequent long asystole, junctional rhythm from different origins and complete right bundle branch block which appeared at shorter and longer diastolic intervals. Histological examination showed an extensive amyloid infiltration in the upper parts of the conduction system, with major damage in the sinus node and also elsewhere in the heart.