The following were the purpose of this study. First, whether social support construct change of factor pattern with the males and females; testing configural, metric, scalar invariance. Second, it was to find latent mean difference between male and fe...
The following were the purpose of this study. First, whether social support construct change of factor pattern with the males and females; testing configural, metric, scalar invariance. Second, it was to find latent mean difference between male and female using latent mean analysis. The elderly 298(male 139, female 159) were participated. The data from this study were analyzed using SPSS 19.0 and AMOS 19.0 for multi-group confirmatory factor analysis, latent mean analysis, and chi-square test. The summarized results of this study are following below; First, the configural, metric, scalar invariance, and variance invariance were satisfied for multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. Second, according to the latent means analysis result, it revealed that the latent means of the material support was statistically significantly, and the male elderly was upper than that of the females elderly. Additionally, when it comes to effect size was medium effect which emotional support factor was .264 and material support factor was .613.