The devastating impacts of trauma bonding on survivors of sex trafficking have been repeatedly observed by researchers and practitioners alike. Trauma bonding hinders survivors from exiting exploitive environments and facilitates a toxic cycle of repeated exploitation. Despite empirical evidence of trauma bonding among survivors of sex trafficking, no measure of trauma bonding in the context of sex trafficking has been developed or evaluated. Given this need, the current study develops and evaluates a measure of trauma bonding for young adults in the context of sex trafficking. The study involved item development and modification, pretesting of the items, survey administration, scale development using exploratory factor analysis, and lastly, scale evaluation using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Analysis of the survey data from 619 young adults indicated that the Trauma Bonding Scale for Adults© is a harmonious measure of trauma bonding with strong internal consistency and concurrent criterion validity. Implications related to scale use by researchers and clinicians are discussed.

研究人员和从业人员多次观察到创伤性联系对性贩运幸存者的破坏性影响。创伤性纽带阻碍幸存者脱离剥削环境，并促进重复剥削的有毒循环。尽管有经验证据表明性贩运幸存者之间存在创伤联系，但尚未制定或评估性贩运背景下创伤联系的衡量标准。鉴于这种需要，当前的研究开发并评估了性贩运背景下年轻人的创伤联结衡量标准。该研究涉及项目开发和修改、项目预测试、调查管理、使用探索性因素分析的量表开发，以及最后使用验证性因素分析和结构方程模型的量表评估。对619名年轻人的调查数据分析表明，成人创伤联结量表©是一种和谐的创伤联结测量方法，具有很强的内部一致性和并发标准效度。讨论了与研究人员和临床医生使用量表相关的影响。