ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Quantitative Psychology and Measurement
Psychometric properties of the EDINA questionnaire for assessing self-esteem in childhood in a Peruvian population
Neftali Torres-Tapia 1
Calixto Tapullima-Mori 2
Miliam Quispe-Vargas 3
Eddy Wildmar Aquize Anco 1
1. EP. Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Peruana Unión, Juliaca, Peru
2. Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Peruana Unión, Tarapoto, Peru
3. Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Tacna, Peru
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Abstract
The present research aimed to establish and validate the psychometric properties of the EDINA Questionnaire in a Peruvian sample given the impact of healthy self-esteem on emotional development. A sample of 680 children selected from educational institutions in the Puno Region between the ages of 4 and 7 years old participated. Content validity was confirmed by Aiken's V (V ≥ 0.80) by a panel of 10 experts, who evaluated criteria such as clarity, congruence and cultural appropriateness. Three items were adjusted after observing 95% confidence interval results. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) resulted in a unidimensional factorial solution where all items have loadings between 0.6 and 0.8; this procedure indicates a KMO and Bartlett's test adequacy value of 0.978 and 0.000 respectively; therefore, there is sufficient inter-item relationship to trust this procedure. On the other hand, there is evidence of absence of multicollinearity due to correlation coefficients between 0.4 and 0.7 in the correlation matrix. Regarding the confirmatory factor analysis, the findings indicate that the multifactorial model exhibits higher incremental fit indices (CFI=0.95 and TLI=0.947) than the unidimensional model (CFI=0.948 and TLI=0.937), which means that the model fits the sample. Regarding the absolute correction index, the multifactorial model (RMSEA=0.60) shows a better fit than the unidimensional model (RMSEA=0.60), which means that the model fits the sample.
Summary
Keywords
Children, Instruments, Peru, questionnaire, self-concept, self-esteem, self-image, Validation
Received
12 August 2025
Accepted
29 December 2025
Copyright
© 2025 Torres-Tapia, Tapullima-Mori, Quispe-Vargas and Aquize Anco. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Neftali Torres-Tapia; Calixto Tapullima-Mori
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