Adaptation and Validation of the Eudaimonic Well-Being Questionnaire to the Spanish Sport Context.

Rubén Trigueros,Ana Manzano-León,Antonio Luque De La Rosa,José M Fernandez-Batanero,Noelia Navarro,José M Pérez-Jiménez,José M Aguilar-Parra,Alejandro García-Mas

doi:10.3390/ijerph18073609

Abstract

Studies to date that have focused on the well-being of the athlete have been based on the hedonic point of view. However, there is a second point of view: eudemonia. Therefore, the present study aims to validate and adapt the Eudemonic Well-Being Scale to the sport context. The study involved 2487 from several sport clubs. Several confirmatory factor analyses were carried out and showed that the six-factor questionnaire was the one with the best fit indices. These results show that the scale is in relation to the original scale (from Spain) and to Waterman’s theoretical model.

Highlights

In recent years, a multitude of studies are emerging in the field of sport psychology that focus on the ways in which athletes seek personal satisfaction [1,2]
The scale showed adequate reliability and concurrent validity. Taking into account this background and the need for a questionnaire to analyze eudemonic well-being in athletes, the present study aims to adapt and validate the Questionnaire Eudemonic Well-Being by Salavera and Usan [18] for the sports context, analyzing its psychometric properties
The analyses have shown that the questionnaire constitutes an instrument that shows evidence of validity and reliability for both the six-factor model and the higher-order model, which will allow measuring the different aspects related to the eudemonic well-being of athletes in the sport context

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Introduction

A multitude of studies are emerging in the field of sport psychology that focus on the ways in which athletes seek personal satisfaction [1,2]. The eudemonic perspective views an individual’s subjective well-being as a state of positive psychological functioning, which is the result of engagement in one’s own activity, self-reflection and the pursuit of the best version of oneself through successive challenges [7,8]. Authors such as Waterman argue that the individual’s experience of a state of eudemonia cannot be separated from hedonism. There are currently no known scales that assess eudemonia in the context of sport that could help to analyze the well-being of athletes in depth

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