Abstract
The Rapid Marital Interaction Coding System (RMICS) is an event-based systemdesigned to code observed dyadic behavior. Behavior is defined broadly to includeall observable actions (i.e., affective, motoric, paralinguistic, and linguistic). TheRMICS was designed to measure frequencies of behavior and behavioral patterns(i.e., sequences) between intimate partners during conflicts. As is discussed later,the RMICS is the second-generation extension of the Marital Interaction CodingSystem (MICS), the oldest and most widely used couples observational system(Heyman, 2001). The RMICS has been used in approximately 20 separate investi-gations with a range of ages (primarily adult married couples, but also preteen sib-lings, high school dating couples, and engaged couples), populations (e.g., generalmarried population, marital clinics, cancer patients and their spouses, families atrisk for adolescent drug abuse, Vietnam veterans), and research purposes.
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