A researcher wishes to study generational differences in coping mechanisms among adults who experienced abuse as children. Adequate measures will be instituted to obtain informed consent and ensure that there is no breach of confidentiality. The most likely additional risk is that some subjects may: Feel that their privacy has been invaded. Experience emotional or psychological distress. Lose their legal status. Lose their employment.

Experience emotional or psychological distress

Explanation:

In this research, participants as adults are going to be taken back memory lane to when they were kids and were abused as children. Even as adults, many do not like to talk about their experience of abuse as kids. Thus, this research is likely to steer up some emotional response as they think back to experiences that were not befitting a human, not to talk of them as kids. Hence, it is almost a given that most, if not all of the participants would experience emotional or psychological distress.