In each model, in order to test for reciprocal effects between perceived coercion and the therapeutic relationship, we estimated models with cross-lagged (e.g., effect of time 1 coercion on time 2 relationship, and the effect of time 1 relationship on time 2 coercion) coefficients.
So the effect of coercion or its kin (duress, extortion) may differ depending upon the sort of action for which one seeks to limit one's responsibility, or upon the moral context in which one acted.
Some regarded involuntary admission as necessary to provide care, but considered the treatment effect of coercion as uncertain.
One effect of this discrepant attention is that it is sometimes difficult to determine what precise meaning earlier writers intended in their discussions of "coercion," as well as to decide whether "coercion" captures something different from or related to other frequently used terms, such as violence, compulsion, punishment, force, or interference.
The mental health score showed a clear tendency of modifying the effect of experience of sexual coercion, so that sexual coercion was only associated with a higher number of sexual partners when the mental health score was high (poor mental health).
An explanation might be that the interviewees assessed the direct effects of coercion in a bilateral rather than in a multilateral case.
David Farabee, professor of psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles, who has studied the effects of coercion on treatment for decades, notes that much of the data here is confounded by what scientists call a "selection effect".
As a token of appreciation, all participants were provided a small household item and refreshments (given at the end of the interview to avoid possible effects of coercion).
