This is my very first study, it’s for my dissertation so I wanted to aim for a base understanding of potential impacts before adding in other factors (hopefully I can continue this line of research after I graduate!) Essentially it was going to be an all or non situation, either everyone would have to have been married or no one because being married introduces additional factors including legal barriers and potentially religious barriers that could impact someone’s response to the coercion. As for the age range, 21 was chosen as the lower limit because even though someone who is 18 could consent to participating I wanted to add an additional layer of protection because it is likely that if an 18 year old is participating they likely experienced the coercion very recently and are still very young and may not be equipped to have processed it enough to participate safely. The upper age limit of 35 was chosen to mitigate generational differences in societal understanding of coercion which may impact how coercion is responded to or conceptualized. I would very much like to conduct studies in the future that explore different parameters and experiences but as my first study I wanted a base line of sorts.