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Cuesta Cambra, Ubaldo Armando

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Ubaldo Armando
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Cuesta Cambra
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/75310
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias de la Informacion
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Teorías y Análisis de la Comunicación
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Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad
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    Validity of the Spanish Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale
    (Vaccines, 2021) Martínez Martínez, Luz; Cuesta Cambra, Ubaldo Armando; Borja Paredes; Miguel Ángel Cárdaba
    Individuals vary in the extent to which they have unfavorable attitudes towards vaccines. The Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale is a recently developed brief 12-item questionnaire created to better understand general vaccination attitudes. The current research aimed at providing a Spanish adaptation of the VAX Scale. After conducting an initial pilot study, Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the Spanish version of the scale had good internal consistency and factor structure (Study 1), discriminant validity from other individual differences measures (such as the Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire and the Medical Mistrust Index) as well as good predictive validity of relevant vaccination-related outcomes (Study 2). In conclusion, in the present research, the Spanish version of the VAX scale proved to have a high internal consistency, showed convergent validity with other conceptually similar constructs, and successfully predicted vaccination intentions and vaccination decisions. Having this scale available in Spanish will allow researchers to analyze vaccination processes and vaccine hesitancy over a great number of people.
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    The neurosciences of health communication: an fNIRS analysis of prefrontal cortex and porn consumption in young women for the development of prevention health programs
    (Frontiers in Psychology, 2020) Martínez Martínez, Luz; Cuesta Cambra, Ubaldo Armando; Niño González, José Ignacio; Borja Paredes
    This work explores the use of fNIRS neuroimaging technique using young female college students with different levels of consumption of pornography, and the activation of the prefrontal cortex (cue reactivity) when viewing a pornographic clip (cue exposure) versus a control clip. The results indicate that the viewing of the pornographic clip (vs. control clip) causes an activation of Brodmann’s area 45 of the right hemisphere (BA 45, pars triangularis) (p < 0.01). An effect also appears between the level of self-reported consumption and the activation of right BA 45: the higher the level of self-reported consumption, the greater the activation (p < 0.01). On the other hand, those participants who have never consumed pornographic material do not show activity of the right BA 45 compared to the control clip (p < 0.01) indicating a qualitative difference between nonconsumers and consumers. These results are consistent with other research made in the field of addictions. It is hypothesized that the mirror neuron system may be involved, through the mechanism of empathy, which could provoke vicarious eroticism. Finally, we suggest the applications that these results may have for primary and secondary prevention programs in the field of problematic consumption of pornography.