Open AccessFactorial Composition of the Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being (Qewb) in Mexican University Students
Author(s) -
Perla Jannet Jurado García,
Humberto Blanco Vega,
Jesús Enrique Peinado Pérez,
María del Carmen Zueck Enríquez
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2016.v12n32p384
Subject(s) - confirmatory factor analysis , psychology , factorial analysis , factorial , statistics , mathematics , structural equation modeling , mathematical analysis
The present study aims to provide empirical support for the factorial division Questionnaire adapted by Schutte et al. (2013) in a sample of women and men Mexicans adults. The total sample was of 1477 Mexican university students; 774 women and 703 men. The age ranged between 18 and 28 years (mean = 20.67 ± 1.90 years). The factorial structure of the questionnaire was analyzed by 1) Exploratory factor analysis and 2) confirmatory factor analysis and factorial invariance. The factors of both subsamples showed adequate reliability and high congruence between pairs of factors, particularly considering the small number of items in each, resulting in a fully confirmatory model. However, the model obtained does not match fully with that proposed by Schutte et al. (2013).