Table 2. Fit Indices for Latent Class Growth Analysis on Sojourners’ Perceived Stress.
| Two-class model | Three-class model | Four-class model | Five-class model | Six-class model | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linear | quadratic | linear | quadratic | linear | quadratic | linear | quadratic | linear | quadratic | |
| Note. BIC = Bayesian Information Criteria; aBIC = sample size adjusted BIC; LMR-LRT = Lo-Mendell-Rubin Likelihood Ratio Test; BLRT = Bootstrap Likelihood Ratio Test; c# = class number. | ||||||||||
| Free parameters | 9 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 23 | 21 | 27 |
| Log likelihood | −9,186.00 | −9,166.37 | −8,998.92 | −8,970.25 | −8,937.15 | −8,906.17 | −8,907.75 | −8,867.46 | −8,883.53 | −8,844.40 |
| BIC | 18,440.47 | 18,416.43 | 18,089.14 | 18,054.63 | 17,988.42 | 17,956.90 | 17,952.44 | 17,903.90 | 17,926.84 | 17,894.23 |
| aBIC | 18,411.87 | 18,381.48 | 18,051.01 | 18,006.97 | 17,940.76 | 17,896.53 | 17,895.25 | 17,830.83 | 17,860.12 | 17,808.45 |
| Entropy | .56 | .56 | .71 | .71 | .68 | .68 | .64 | .70 | .63 | .71 |
| LMR-LRT p | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | .008 | .03 | .21 | .16 | .07 | .12 |
| BLRT p | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Class counts (fit probabilities) | ||||||||||
| c#1 | 909 (.86) | 911 (.86) | 489 (.84) | 468 (.77) | 110 (.84) | 100 (.85) | 128 (.81) | 819 (.76) | 59 (.84) | 86 (.87) |
| c#2 | 1,106 (.88) | 1,104 (.87) | 137 (.83) | 151 (.70) | 1016 (.83) | 113 (.68) | 78 (.86) | 83 (.87) | 193 (.71) | 45 (.73) |
| c#3 | 1,389 (.88) | 1,396 (.93) | 807 (.78) | 816 (.79) | 866 (.78) | 951 (.82) | 327 (.74) | 75 (.79) | ||
| c#4 | 82 (.87) | 86 (.73) | 850 (.71) | 64 (.75) | 239 (.69) | 765 (.75) | ||||
| c#5 | 93 (.72) | 98 (.81) | 1147 (.72) | 979 (.82) | ||||||
| c#6 | 50 (.77) | 65 (.69) | ||||||||