Couple Observational Coding Systems

✍ Scribed by Patricia K. Kerig, Donald H. Baucom

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A companion volume to Family Observational Coding Systems, this book moves from the triad to the dyad and provides a showcase for significant developments in the coding of intimate couple interactions. The hope is that this book will contribute to the broadening and deepening of the field by disseminating information both about the coding systems that have been developed, as well as the conceptual and methodological issues involved in couple observational research. The first three chapters present overviews of conceptual and methodological issues in the study of couple processes. The remaining chapters describe contributions to the field by 16 teams of researchers. Each chapter provides information about the conceptual underpinnings and structure of the coding system developed by the authors and evidence for its psychometric properties. Couple Observational Coding Systems will be of interest to researchers studying couple interactions as well as clinicians who work with couples.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Part I: Conceptual and Methodological Issues......Page 16
1 Coding Couples' Interactions: Introduction and Overview......Page 18
2 Couples Obervational Research: An Impertinent, Critical Overview......Page 26
3 Methodological Guidelines for Conducting Observations of Couples......Page 42
4 Data Analytic Strategies for Couple Observational Coding Systems......Page 58
Part II: Problem-Solving and Communication......Page 80
5 Rapid Marital Interaction Coding System (RMICS)......Page 82
6 The MICSEASE: An Observational Coding System for Capturing Social Processes......Page 110
7 The Interactional Dimensions Coding System (ICDS): A Global System for Couple Interactions......Page 128
8 Kategoriensystem für Partnerschaftliche Interaktion (KPI): Interactional Coding System (ICS)......Page 142
9 Communication Skills Test (CST): Observational System for Couples' Problem-Solving Skills......Page 158
10 Observational Coding of Demand–Withdraw Interactions in Couples......Page 174
11 System for Coding Interactions in Dyads......Page 188
Part III: Affect and Intimacy......Page 204
12 The Specific Affect Coding System......Page 206
13 Turning Toward Versus Turning Away: A Coding System of Daily Interactions......Page 224
14 Repair Attempts Obervational Coding System: Measuring De-Escalation of Negative Affect During Marital Conflict......Page 242
15 Coding Intimacy in Couples' Interactions......Page 258
16 Looking in the Mirror: Participant Observation of Affect Using Video Recall in Couple Interactions......Page 272
Part IV: Information Processing......Page 286
17 The Thematic Coding of Dyadic Interactions: Observing the Context of Couple Conflict......Page 288
18 The Relationship Schema Coding System: Coding the Behavioral Manifestations of Relationship Thinking......Page 304
Part V: Social Support......Page 320
19 The Social Support Behavior Code......Page 322
20 The Social Support Interaction Coding System......Page 334
References......Page 350
B......Page 378
E......Page 379
H......Page 380
L......Page 381
O......Page 382
S......Page 383
W......Page 384
Z......Page 385
E......Page 386
T......Page 387