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Fadda, Daniela, M. Paz Quevedo-Aguado, María H. Benavente Cuesta, y L. Francesca Scalas. «The Multidimensional and Hierarchical Nature of the Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Wellbeing: A Bifactor-ESEM Representation in a Spanish Sample». Frontiers in Psychology 11 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYG.2020.00422.
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Aim of the present study is to support the multidimensional and hierarchical nature of the
Spanish version of Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Wellbeing (QEWB) and to analyze its
psychometric properties through the exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM)
framework. Results of the analyses carried out in a sample of university students
(N = 589, 161 males and 428 females), supported the hypothesized bifactor-ESEM
solution, composed by a global eudaimonic wellbeing factor and three specific factors
(Sense of Purpose, Purposeful Personal Expressiveness and Effortful Engagement).
Specifically, the global factor is relatively well defined by most of the 21 items;
moreover, two of the specific factors (Purposeful Personal Expressiveness, Effortful
Engagement) keep their own meaningful specificity apart from that explained by
the global factor, suggesting that they add information to the eudaimonic wellbeing
construct. Regarding criterion-related validity of the QEWB, the global factor was
positively correlated with self-esteem. Finally, the scale showed adequate levels of
composite reliability and measurement invariance over gender. Differences in latent
means showed that girls report higher positive Purposeful Personal Expressiveness and
Effortful Engagement than boys, whereas no significant differences were found in relation
to global eudaimonic wellbeing. Theoretical implications about the nature of eudaimonic
wellbeing are considered
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