Table 5.

Model fit indices for latent profile analysis of future work self-salience and professional identity.

Profile	AIC	BIC	aBIC	Entropy	LMR (p)	BLRT (p)	Proportion of potential subgroups
1	31209.121	31408.859	31262.830	–	–	–	–
2	27207.994	27511.943	27289.725	0.956	<0.001	<0.001	46.2%/53.8%
3	25701.872	26110.032	25811.625	0.957	<0.001	<0.001	38.5%/50.3%/11.2%
4	25130.579	25642.949	25268.354	0.945	0.058	<0.001	21.9%/22.5%/44.8%/10.8%
5	24652.572	25269.154	24818.369	0.951	0.579	<0.001	1.1%/21.5%/22.2%/44.4%/10.8%

AIC = Akaike information criterion; BIC = Bayesian information criterion; aBIC = sample-size adjusted BIC; LMR = Lo–Mendell–Rubin likelihood ratio test; BLRT = bootstrap likelihood ratio test. The 3-profile model (in bold) was selected as the optimal solution.