Social media addiction: associations with attachment style, mental distress, and personality

BMC Psychiatry

Table 6 BIC values and changes for different cluster solutions

Number of Clusters	Schwarz Bayesian Criterion (BIC)	BIC-Change^a	Ratio of BIC-Cange^b	Ratio of Disctance Measures^c
1	6050.957
2	4870.574	-1180.384	1.000	1.793
3	4265.109	-605.465	0.513	1.781
4	3977.668	-287.441	0.244	1.335
5	3792.535	-185.133	0.157	1.230
6	3664.418	-128.117	0.109	1.023
7	3541.860	-122.559	0.104	1.050
8	3430.772	-111.088	0.094	1.220
9	3361.296	-69.476	0.059	1.565
10	3360.201	-1.095	0.001	1.298
11	3386.852	26.651	− 0.023	1.067
12	3419.344	32.492	− 0.028	1.044
13	3455.556	36.212	− 0.031	1.046
14	3495.457	39.901	− 0.034	1.131
15	3544.605	49.148	− 0.042	1.085

Notes. (a) Changes are derived from the previous number of clusters in the table. (b) The change ratios are relative to the change for the two cluster solutions. (c) The ratios for distance measures are based on the current number of clusters compared to the previous number of clusters

ISSN: 1471-244X