Validity of the spanish version of the vaccination attitudes examination scale
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UAM. Departamento de Psicología Social y MetodologíaPublisher
MDPIDate
2021-10-21Citation
Vaccines 9 (2021): 1237ISSN
2076-393XFunded by
This research is funded by the Spain´s Ministry of Economy and Entrepreneurship (MINECO). The funded project´s name is: “Sentiment y popularidad de los mensajes pro y antivacunas en redes: análisis de respuestas explícitas e implícitas mediante EGG, GSR, reconocimiento facial y eye tracking”. The reference number of such project is RTI 2018-097670-B.100Project
Gobierno de España. RTI 2018-097670-B.100Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9111237Subjects
vaccinations; scale; individual differences; vaccine hesitancy; validity; PsicologíaRights
© 2021 by the authorsAbstract
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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Google Scholar:Paredes Sansinenea, Borja
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Cárdaba, Miguel Ángel
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Cuesta, Ubaldo
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Martinez, Luz
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