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Published in final edited form as: Mindfulness (N Y). 2018 Oct 29;10(5):854–862. doi: 10.1007/s12671-018-1045-6

Table 2.

Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analyses Testing the Moderating Effects of Compassion For the Self and Others on the Relationships between Country and Positive and Negative Affect

										95%CI
Step	Variable	ΔR²	ΔF	df	p value	B	SE	β	t	p value	Lower	Upper
Positive affect
1	Negative affect	0.04	20.91	1/503	0.001	−0.19	0.04	−0.20	−4.57	0.001	−0.27	−0.11
2	Country	0.09	54.06	1/502	0.001	5.69	0.77	0.32	7.35	0.001	4.17	7.21
3	SC	0.20	76.50	2/500	0.001	0.82	0.08	0.42	9.88	0.001	0.66	0.99
	COM					0.32	0.06	0.23	5.68	0.001	0.21	0.43
4	Country ×SC	0.01	5.63	2/498	0.004	0.27	0.08	0.13	3.34	0.001	0.11	0.42
	Country ×COM					−0.02	0.06	−0.01	−0.31	0.760	−0.13	0.09
Negative affect
1	Positive affect	0.04	20.91	1/503	0.001	−0.21	0.05	−0.20	−4.57	0.001	−0.30	−0.12
2	Country	0.07	38.02	1/502	0.001	−5.11	0.83	−0.28	−6.17	0.001	−6.74	−3.48
3	SC	0.20	73.16	2/500	0.001	−1.02	0.09	−0.51	−12.03	0.001	−1.19	−0.86
	COM					−0.03	0.06	−0.02	−0.44	0.660	−0.15	0.09
4	Country ×SC	0.01	2.27	2/498	0.104	0.04	0.09	0.02	0.41	0.685	−0.13	0.20
	Country ×COM					−0.13	0.06	−0.08	−2.13	0.034	−0.25	−0.01

Note. N = 258 in the United States and 248 in Japan, SE, standard error; CI, confidence interval; SCS, Self-Compassion Scale; COM, the Compassion subscale of Differential Positive Emotions Scale. Culture was dummy coded as 0 = Japan and 1 = the United States.