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This article investigates young people's attitudes toward and beliefs about alternative tobacco products, including cigars, bidis, and kreteks. The cigar attitudes receiving the lowest endorsement was that cigars give you a good buzz, whereas the item receiving the highest endorsement levels were that cigars smell good and are something different to try. The most endorsed kretek attitudes were that kreteks smell good and are something different to try. For bidis, the most endorsed items were that bidis look like joints and are something different to try.

Explores the components of cohesiveness in group psychotherapy and the phase-specific nature of these elements. Performance of ratings; Types of observable participant behavior; Theories of group development.

The 127-item Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) has proven useful in capturing clinically important aspects of client's interpersonal functioning. Alden, Wiggins, and Pincus constructed a 64-item circumplex form of the IIP (IIP-C). We found that an even shorter form was needed for situations involving the screening of patients in a brief time. We, therefore, constructed a 32-item short circumplex form (IIP-SC). This form was found to exhibit excellent internal consistency reliability and strong test-retest correlations in three outpatient samples. It was found to correlate highly with the longer forms of the IIP and to show similar treatment responsiveness to them. The IIP-SC has also been demonstrated to correspond closely to the circumplex model of interpersonal behavior. The IIP-SC is, thus, an adequate substitute for the complete IIP in settings where brevity is important. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]