TABLE 3.

Multiple regressions: Mental health shame, self-compassion, work engagement, and work motivation for mental health problems in German and South African employees.

	Dependent variable: Mental health problems
	German employees				South African employees
	B	SEB	β	95% CI [lower, upper]	B	SEB	β	95% CI [lower, upper]
Step 1
Gender (1 = F, 2 = M)	–0.54	0.28	–0.12	−1.09, 0.01	–0.78	0.29	−0.17**	−1.36, −0.20
Age	–0.05	0.01	−0.22***	-0.07, −0.02	–0.06	0.01	−0.32***	−0.09, −0.04
Adj. R2		0.05				0.13
Step 2
Gender	–0.22	0.22	–0.05	−0.64, 0.21	–0.31	0.25	–0.07	−0.81, 0.19
Age	–0.01	0.01	–0.06	−0.03, 0.01	–0.02	0.01	–0.10	−0.04, 0.002
Mental health shame	0.31	0.06	0.28***	0.02, 0.42	0.16	0.07	0.14*	0.02, 0.30
Self-compassion	–4.13	0.61	−0.36***	−5.32, −2.93	–4.00	0.62	−0.39***	−5.23, −2.77
Work engagement	–0.32	0.15	−0.15*	−0.62, −0.02	–0.18	0.15	–0.09	−0.48, 0.13
Intrinsic motivation	0.98	0.46	0.16*	0.08, 1.88	–0.52	0.53	–0.09	−1.56, 0.52
Extrinsic motivation	–0.72	0.55	–0.08	−1.80, 0.35	0.37	0.68	0.05	-0.96, 1.70
Amotivation	1.19	0.28	0.24***	0.65, 1.73	0.98	0.33	0.17**	0.33, 1.62
Adj. R2 Δ		0.41				0.27

***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 (2-tailed).