Validity and Reliability of the Portuguese Version of the Healthy Lifestyle Questionnaire—EVS III

Marco Batista, Marta Leyton-Román and Ruth Jiménez-Castuera
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Marco Batista: Department of Sports and Well-Being, Higher School of Education—SHERU (Sport, Health and Exercise Research Unit), Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Rua Prof. Dr. Faria de Vasconcelos, 6200 Castelo Branco, Portugal
Marta Leyton-Román: Department of Didactics of Music, Plastic and Body Expression, Faculty of Teaching Training, University of Extremadura. Av. de la Universidad, s/n, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
Ruth Jiménez-Castuera: Department of Didactics of Music, Plastic and Body Expression, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, Av. de la Universidad, s/n, 10003 Cáceres, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: The main objective of this study was to validate the Healthy Lifestyle Questionnaire—EVS III, using confirmatory factor analysis of the measurement model. A total of 822 Portuguese individuals of both genders, aged between 18 and 66 years old ( M = 28.43 SD = 12.07), participated in this study, of which 382 were male (46.5%) and 440 were female (53.5%). The main results obtained revealed that the psychometric qualities prove the adequacy of the factor structure of the Healthy Lifestyles Questionnaire—EVS III (7 factors/32 items) and that it has acceptable validity indices: χ 2 = 644.6828, p = 0.000, df = 168, χ 2 / df = 3.84, NFI = 0.901, TLI = 0.902, CFI = 0.921, IFI = 0.922, MFI = 0.900, GFI = 0.909, AGFI = 0.901, RMR = 0.073, SRMR = 0.059 and RMSEA = 0.059, enabling the assessment of factors related to a balanced diet, respect for mealtimes, tobacco consumption, alcohol consumption, consumption of other drugs, resting habits and physical activity habits. The Portuguese version of the Healthy Lifestyles Questionnaire—EVS III can be used with reasonable confidence for the assessment of healthy lifestyles.

Keywords: healthy lifestyles; confirmatory factor analysis; motivation; psychometrics; health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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