Cynicism among medical students: An in-depth analysis of mental health dynamics and protective factors in medical education using structural equation modeling

The present study comprised third-year and fifth-year Hungarian medical students from the University of Pécs in a partially cross-sectional, partially longitudinal investigation conducted at two time points (2018/19: 124 third-years; 127 fifth-years; 2020/21: 82 third-years; 37 fifth-years). All medical students were sampled in the given year of the selected semester (third-year students at the first timepoint were asked once again as fifth-year students at the second timepoint).