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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2015 Mar 16;77(3):791–805. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12185

Table 3.

Membership Probabilities and Item Response Probabilities of the Five-Latent Class Model

Variable Total
yesa (%)		 Balanced pattern Unbalanced pattern
Class 1:
High
exchanges
with both sets
of parents
(across all
types
of support)		 Class 2:
Low exchanges
with both sets
of parents
(across all
types
of support)		 Class 3:
Giving
exchanges
with both sets
of parents
(across all
types
of support)		 Class 4:
Exchanges
only with
own parents
(across all
types of
support)		 Class 5:
Moderate/high
exchanges
with own
parents
but, obligatory
exchanges
with parents-
in-lawb
Class membership probability (γc)
Total .16 .21 .23 .23 .17
  Men .16 .22 .20 .43 .00
  Women .16 .20 .28 .01 .36
Item response probability (ρi|c)
Parents
  Financial support given 57.0 .74 .30 .64 .71 .46
  Financial support received 35.4 .65 .11 .27 .32 .56
  Emotional support given 63.0 .94 .07 .75 .68 .83
  Emotional support received 57.1 .96 .09 .57 .56 .85
  Instrumental support given 47.6 .92 .09 .33 .71 .45
  Instrumental support received 34.0 .93 .02 .05 .39 .55
Parents-in-law
  Financial support given 50.2 .78 .27 .65 .28 .63
  Financial support received 28.8 .64 .12 .42 .15 .16
  Emotional support given 42.9 .94 .04 .93 .12 .19
  Emotional support received 35.2 .91 .04 .75 .11 .03
  Instrumental support given 41.9 .88 .13 .56 .15 .53
  Instrumental support received 28.2 .84 .06 .37 .14 .12
a

Coded 1 (yes) for “sometimes” and “often” and 0 (no) for “rarely” and “not at all.”

b

Class 5 has moderate/high exchanges for all types of support with own parents, and moderate provision of instrumental and financial support to parents-in-laws, but low exchanges of emotional support.