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TABLE 3.

Standardised factor loadings and omega coefficients for the final preferred 3-factor models of the QEWB (Samples 1, 2, and 3).

	Sample 1: QEWB-English				Sample 2: QEWB-Afrikaans				Sample 3: QEWB-Setswana
	bifactor ESEM				bifactor ESEM				bifactor ESEM (item 9 out)

Item	G	SOP	PPE	EE	G	SOP	PPE	EE	G	SOP	PPE	EE
SOP factor
1	0.39^*	0.26^*	0.01	0.08	0.55^*	0.02	0.14^*	−0.08	0.35^*	0.55^*	−0.01	−0.26^*
2	0.40^*	0.59^*	0.12	−0.04	0.66^*	0.20	−0.08	−0.13^*	0.48^*	0.28	0.13	−0.12
6	0.53^*	0.43^*	−0.15	0.09	0.62^*	−0.11	0.14	0.09	0.58^*	0.04	0.06	−0.07
9	0.40^*	0.64^*	0.05	−0.10	0.68^*	0.38	−0.03	−0.12	–	–	–	–
11 (R)	0.25^*	0.46^*	0.09	0.26^*	0.35^*	0.71^*	0.05	0.29^*	0.34^*	0.23	−0.07	0.59^*
16 (R)	0.15^*	0.35^*	−0.04	0.34^*	0.43^*	0.20	−0.19^*	0.13^*	0.08	0.32^*	−0.01	0.41^*
21	0.26^*	0.61^*	0.04	−0.15	0.69^*	0.39	−0.06	−0.11	0.58^*	0.06	−0.02	0.02
PPE factor
4	0.60^*	0.13	0.58^*	−0.03	0.41^*	0.00	0.18^*	0.08	0.49^*	0.13	0.06	−0.16^*
5	0.47^*	0.05	0.16	0.06	0.33^*	−0.04	0.20	0.08	0.37^*	−0.09	−0.17	0.08
8	0.58^*	−0.11^*	0.00	−0.05	0.36^*	−0.10	0.07	0.05	0.51^*	−0.16	−0.19	0.08
10	0.19^*	−0.12	−0.18	−0.18	0.16^*	0.02	0.25^*	−0.12	0.32^*	−0.13	−0.21	−0.02
13	0.63^*	−0.19^*	0.15	−0.09	0.35^*	−0.04	0.39^*	0.01	0.63^*	0.04	−0.04	0.06
14	0.48^*	0.08	0.00	0.00	0.45^*	−0.01	0.32^*	−0.06	0.52^*	0.21^*	−0.15	−0.26^*
15	0.60^*	0.11	−0.33	0.09	0.37^*	−0.11	0.41^*	0.03	0.57^*	−0.10	0.19	0.05
17	0.47^*	0.10	−0.10	−0.05	0.45^*	0.02	0.42^*	0.10	0.42^*	0.13	0.13	0.02
18	0.61^*	−0.20^*	−0.31	−0.03	0.26^*	0.00	0.62^*	−0.06	0.66^*	−0.08	0.40	0.03
EE factor
3 (R)	0.10	−0.02	0.13	0.37^*	0.18^*	0.01	0.02	0.41^*	−0.23	0.10	0.23	0.23^*
7 (R)	0.24^*	0.13	−0.11	0.41^*	0.17^*	0.05	0.01	0.36^*	0.21	−0.05	0.22^*	0.37^*
12 (R)	0.24^*	−0.03	−0.01	0.34^*	0.31^*	0.21^*	0.17^*	0.33^*	0.30^*	0.09	−0.10	0.57^*
19 (R)	0.23^*	−0.05	−0.03	0.59^*	0.28^*	−0.01	−0.07	0.41^*	0.33^*	0.10	−0.06	0.64^*
20 (R)	0.28^*	0.22^*	0.03	0.50^*	0.39^*	0.06	−0.09	0.36^*	0.11	−0.06	−0.03	0.45^*
Omega coefficients	0.83	0.73	0.37	0.58	0.84	0.54	0.55	0.48	0.83	0.38	0.29	0.60

QEWB, Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being; ESEM, exploratory structural equation modelling; G, general factor; SOP, Sense of Purpose factor; PPE, Purposeful Personal Expressiveness factor; EE, Effortful Engagement factor; (R), item is reverse scored. Factor loadings on the general factor and target factor loadings on the intended specific factors are indicated in bold. Scale items are available from Waterman et al. (2010).

*p < 0.05.