A cross-sectional study on personal values of medical students: the differences from their instructors, their associations with mental wellbeing, and the influences of gender

Table 1 Demographic data, rating on values, and mental wellbeing rating of the participants

Variable	Students (n = 520)	Instructors (n = 146)
Variable	N (%) or mean (SD)	N (%) or mean (SD)
Age	20.0 (2.3)	40.7 (9.9)
Gender
- Female - Male - Gender minorities	305 (58.7) 192 (36.9) 23 (4.4)	86 (58.9) 58 (39.7) 2 (1.4)
Status
- Single - Married - Other	519 (99.8) 1 (0.2) 0 (0)	75 (51.4) 63 (43.2) 8 (5.5)
Religion
- Buddhism - Others (Christian, Islam, Sikh, and Areligious)	465 (89.4) 55 (10.6)	135 (92.5) 11 (7.5)
Affiliation
- Metropolitan medical school - Regional medical school	242 (46.5) 278 (53.5)	108 (74) 38 (26)
Underlying physical illness
- Absent	456 (87.7)	120 (82.2)
- Present	64 (12.3)	26 (17.8)
Underlying mental illness
- Absent - Present	515 (99.0) 5 (1.0)	144 (98.6) 2 (1.4)

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