Table 2.
Model fit and summary statistics for LCA models classifying participants according to their scores in the spirituality and the other three character strengths factors.
| Number of | Class | Membership | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| classes | BIC | sizes | Entropy | probabilities | VLMR | LRT | Bootstrap |
| 3 | 11674 | 566–30 | 0.71 | 0.57-0.88 | 38.78 | 37.50 | 38.58∗∗ |
| 4 | 11666 | 471–30 | 0.75 | 0.74-0.89 | 42.73∗ | 41.53∗ | 42.73∗∗ |
| 5 | 11700 | 560–2 | 0.80 | 0.60-0.88 | 25.31∗ | 24.60∗ | 25.31∗∗ |
| 6 | 11705 | 468–3 | 0.80 | 0.60-0.90 | 4.48 | 4.35 | 4.48 |
Vuong-Lo-Mendell-Rubin (VLMR), Lo-Mendell-Rubin Adjusted (LRT), and parametric bootstrapped (Bootstrap) likelihood ratio tests inferentially compared a model with k classes to a model with k-1 classes. ∗p < 0.05; ∗∗p< 0.001.