OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to investigate associations between gender role orientation and eating pathology in a sample of females with eating disorders (ED). METHODS Sixty-eight women with anorexia nervosa and 123 women with bulimia nervosa completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), the Eating Disorders Inventory, and the Sexual Anxiety subscale of the Anorexia Nervosa Inve...

AIM Traditional hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotyping methods using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) can reliably identify genotypes A to F. As HBV genotypes G and H have been recently identified, this study was to establish an accurate and simple genotyping method for all eight HBV genotypes (A to H). METHODS Two hundred and forty HBV small S sequences obtained from GeneBank were...

ABSTRACT The goal of this study was to examine the sex role attitudes of typical college students before and after a 15-week sex roles class. A questionnaire consisting of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), a modified form of the Attitudes Toward Women Scale, and 34 questions concerning sex-role attitudes and beliefs was administered to students in psychology of sex roles classes and to control...

OBJECTIVE To understand the developmental psychopathology of eating disorders, it is crucial to explain the large gender discrepancy in the rates of these disorders, especially anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. In this paper, meta-analysis was used to examine the relationship between gender role adherence and the existence of eating problems. METHOD Of the 69 studies examined, 22 containe...

The recruitment of parkin to mitochondria in response to mitochondrial membrane depolarization is an important aspect of parkin biology that has attracted extensive research. We found that parkin with the sequence (AB009973.1) reported in the original discovery of the gene was not recruited to mitochondria following carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) treatment, while parkin with th...

The study objective was to examine the factorial structure, reliability and provide some evidence for validity of Spanish version Bem Sexual Roles Inventory (BSRI), which assesses self-description in terms gender traits. A sample 2,672 participants, heterosexual adults (1,289 men, 1,383 women) distributed into four age groups (18-25, 26-35, 36-55, 56 years or more), completed a 40-item BSRI. An...

The structure of the short form Bem Sex Role Inventory (Bem, 1981) was examined in two UK samples of 214 women and 166 men, and 215 women and 166 men, respectively, aged 17–22 years. A confirmatory factor analysis of the masculinity and femininity items for the first sample produced a poor fit. An exploratory factor analysis of the data from this sample produced a 3 factor solution which, toget...

Function is central in mathematical learning. Therefore, understanding the concept of function important for students to comprehend other broader concepts. This study aims explore a male student, with moderate ability, using qualitative approach. To obtain such researchers grouped by gender questionnaire adopted from The BEM Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). Each student answered five times ensure dat...