Abstract
This study aimed to investigate and validate the consistency of the male homosexual
students’ self-esteem model and empirical data. A snowball technique was used to recruit 416 male homosexual students studying in the academic year 2010 at institutions of higher education in the northeastern region of Thailand. The results of analyses revealed that three factors were self-proud self-respect and self-efficacy factor by factor loadings of .92 .81 and .76 in order. The validation of a goodness of fitted model yielded a χ2 = 172.22, p = .05 at df = 105 χ2/df = 1.64, GFI = .93, AGFI = .97, CFI = .91, RMR = .03, RMSEA = .04. The variables in the self-esteem model were consistent with the empirical data.
Keywords: confirmatory factor analysis, self-esteem, male homosexual students
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