PMID- 7654167
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19950928
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0005-7967 (Print)
IS  - 0005-7967 (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 6
DP  - 1995 Jul
TI  - Marital interaction coding system: revision and empirical evaluation.
PG  - 737-46
AB  - Given the vast amount of codeable information in marital interactions, 
      observational coding systems must emphasize particular classes of behavior. The 
      most widely used marital coding scheme, the Marital Interaction Coding System 
      (MICS), like many older behavioral coding systems, emphasizes verbal content over 
      affect. Changes made to the MICS between versions III and IV are described; they 
      were intended to increase the system's use of coded affect and to decrease 
      autodependence in sequential analysis. We used an archival data set of 994 
      couples' videotaped conflict negotiations coded with the MICS. As intended, the 
      MICS-IV, relative to the MICS-III, was found to have the advantage of capturing 
      more non-verbal affect expressed during marital interactions, which resulted in 
      stronger interactional contingencies (e.g. Wife Blame-->Husband Blame, Husband 
      Facilitation-->Wife Facilitation). The MICS-IV also yielded significantly lower 
      levels of spurious autodependence.
FAU - Heyman, R E
AU  - Heyman RE
AD  - University Marital Clinic, Department of Psychology, University at Stony Brook, 
      NY 11794-2500, USA.
FAU - Weiss, R L
AU  - Weiss RL
FAU - Eddy, J M
AU  - Eddy JM
LA  - eng
GR  - MH18935/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - MH19107/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - England
TA  - Behav Res Ther
JT  - Behaviour research and therapy
JID - 0372477
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Conflict, Psychological
MH  - Female
MH  - Gender Identity
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Marital Therapy
MH  - Marriage/*psychology
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Personality Assessment/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Problem Solving
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
EDAT- 1995/07/01 00:00
MHDA- 1995/07/01 00:01
CRDT- 1995/07/01 00:00
PHST- 1995/07/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1995/07/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1995/07/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 000579679500003G [pii]
AID - 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00003-g [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Behav Res Ther. 1995 Jul;33(6):737-46. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00003-g.