Characteristics of Stress Levels, Learning Motivation, and the Level of Knowledge

Medical students face a variety of stressors, such as the rigorous medical curriculum, competition for their desired specialty, and adherence to the school’s moral and ethical standards. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of motivation and stress of preclinical medical students. The study gathered questionnaires from 250 preclinical medical students from December 2023 to January 2024. The collected data were related to motivation, stress level, CBT/Socca score, and Learn strategy. The sample is 250 participants, most participants were female (70.4%), aged < 20 years old (98.4%), and had medical interests by their own wishes (77.6%). Most preclinical students in the MSLQ questionnaire had moderate motivation (76.8%) and moderate learning strategy (73.6%), and the results were good in the DASS-42 questionnaire with normal depression, anxiety, and stress (69.2%, 45.2%, 70.0%). The CBT vs SOCCA test scores had very different results; the SOCCA score was lower than CBT score SOCCA= E (24 %) with an average value of 60.50 ± 21.03 vs. CBT= A- (20.0%) with an average value of 63.10 ± 11.37. The characteristics of medical faculty students are normal stress levels, moderate learning motivation, and the SOCCA score was lower than the CBT score.