Table 2 Statistics and directions of the effects in the exploratory models for depression, anxiety, and burnout. Columns “direction” include information on whether increasing values of the predictor were linked to increasing ( >) or decreasing ( <) values of the dependent variables (questionnaire scores). Post-hoc comparisons with Holm correction were administered for “Years in Germany” in all models, but none of the contrasts survived the corrections.
Depression model | Anxiety model | Burnout model | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F value | Direction | F value | Direction | F value | Direction | ||
Demographic and support structures | Gender | 11.6*** | M > F | 18.6*** | M > F | 4.2* | F > M |
Year of PhD | 0.2 | < | 1.3 | < | |||
PhD type | 11.3*** | Individual > Structured | |||||
Years in Germany | 4.7* | Native < 4 + < 0–3, no pcorr sig | 3.1* | Native & 4 + < 0–3, no pcorr sig | 8.5*** | 0–3 & native < 4 + , no pcorr sig | |
Diagnosed disorder | 8.9** | Yes > No | 7.4** | Yes > No | 4.5* | Yes > No | |
Social network (general) | 12.8*** | < | 7.4** | < | |||
Self-efficacy | 45.2*** | < | |||||
Satisfaction with PhD aspects | Overall | 33*** | < | 27.7*** | < | 75.3*** | < |
Supervision | 11** | < | |||||
Work environment | 0.4 | > | |||||
Work-life balance | 13.6*** | < | 5.3* | < | 24.3*** | < | |
Career perspectives | 7.9** | < | 9.9** | < | |||
Holidays | 9.3** | < | 25.2*** | < | |||
Workload | 0.03 | > | |||||
Model statistics | |||||||
F (df) | 9.7 (11,186) | 8.4 (10,187) | 21.8 (10,187) | ||||
R2multiple/R2adjusted | 0.37/0.33 | 0.31/0.27 | 0.54/0.51 | ||||
