Table 3.

The goodness-of-fit indexes of exploratory LCA.

Model	AIC	BIC	aBIC	LMR	aLMR	BLRT	Entropy	Latent class probability
1	23,158.18	23,193.84	23,174.78	–	–	–	–	1.00
2	18,177.69	18,254.96	18,213.65	***	***	***	0.86	0.51/0.49
3	16,933.63	17,052.51	16,988.96	***	***	***	0.89	0.19/0.44/0.37
4	16,274.54	16,435.02	16,349.23	***	***	***	0.87	0.35/0.32/0.19/0.14
5	16,267.47	16,469.56	16,361.53	0.129	0.134	0.013	0.84	0.18/0.10/0.31/0.06/0.35
6	16,271.81	16,515.50	16,385.23	0.163	0.168	0.600	0.85	0.01/0.08/0.06/0.18/0.32/0.35

^***p < 0.001. Bold type denotes the suggested best model by the respective index.