Conceptualising and Measuring Adolescents’ Hedonic and Eudemonic Wellbeing: Discriminant Validity and Dimensionality Concerns

Devi Khanna (), Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey and Ola Demkowicz
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Devi Khanna: University of Manchester
Louise Black: University of Manchester
Margarita Panayiotou: University of Manchester
Neil Humphrey: University of Manchester
Ola Demkowicz: University of Manchester

Child Indicators Research, 2024, vol. 17, issue 2, No 4, 579 pages

Abstract: Abstract There is a gap between the theoretical assumptions of wellbeing and its associated empirical constructs. Three measurement models (a correlated factors model, a second-order two-factor model, and a bifactor model) were analysed using a large sample of English adolescents (n = 37, 630) to test whether the theoretical separation between hedonic and eudemonic wellbeing is empirically supported, and whether there is the possibility of essential unidimensionality. Evidence of a general factor of wellbeing was found in the bifactor model, challenging the de-facto distinction often made between hedonic and eudemonic wellbeing.

Keywords: Hedonic wellbeing; Eudemonic wellbeing; Adolescence; Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Bifactor model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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