Differentiating compliance and verbal coercion: A mixed methods content validity study.

ABSTRACT: Verbal coercion, a form of sexual violence, is a common problem that is related to various psychological and physical outcomes. Cognitive interviewing is an important technique used to understand how people perceive items on a questionnaire. The current study utilized cognitive interviewing and sought to examine the content validity of a potentially ambiguous item, "my partner insisted on sex", from the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales, a measure of intimate partner violence. Participants were mostly college students at a local Midwestern University (N = 39). Participants responses were qualitatively coded, and the following themes emerged: coercion (42.68%) (physical (4.88%) and verbal (37.80%)), consent (30.49%), compliance (4.88%), hesitancy to have sex (13.41%), personal experiences (6.

SUBMITTER: Welk VJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12490731 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature