Heyman R E, Weiss R L, Eddy J M
University Marital Clinic, Department of Psychology, University at Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, USA.
Behav Res Ther. 1995 Jul;33(6):737-46. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00003-g.
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.
鉴于婚姻互动中存在大量可编码信息，观察性编码系统必须强调特定类别的行为。最广泛使用的婚姻编码方案，即婚姻互动编码系统（MICS），与许多较旧的行为编码系统一样，更强调言语内容而非情感。文中描述了MICS在版本III和IV之间所做的更改；这些更改旨在增加系统对编码情感的使用，并减少顺序分析中的自动依赖性。我们使用了一个存档数据集，其中包含994对夫妻的录像冲突谈判，这些谈判都采用MICS进行编码。正如预期的那样，相对于MICS-III，发现MICS-IV具有捕捉婚姻互动中更多非言语情感表达的优势，这导致了更强的互动偶然性（例如，妻子指责→丈夫指责，丈夫促进→妻子促进）。MICS-IV还产生了显著更低水平的虚假自动依赖性。
