Abstract
This study was conducted on 306 new medical students, and its purpose was to survey associations between sense of coherence (SOC), which is though to be associated with stress coping ability and to affect mental health, and the degree of preference for the school, the residential environment, and mental and physical health status, and to identify factors that have an impact on SOC. A multiple regression analysis with SOC score as the dependent variable identified degree of preference for the school, CMI, depressed feeling, suicidal tendency, and obsessive thoughts as factors that had an impact on SOC. These findings suggested that determining the degree of preference for the school and physical and mental health status of students at the stage when they enter school is important in terms of supporting the subsequent mental health of students.
