The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree of how one’s sense of coherence and
self-leadership appear according to individual characteristics, and analyzes the relationship between sense of
coherence and self-leadership. The subjects of this study were 900 college students from a college located
in Cheonan. An online questionnaire was conducted over a month from September 29th to October 29th,
2016, and 759 questionnaires were used in the final analysis. Among the individual characteristics of the
study subjects, the previous semester grades and the daily average study time had a positive correlation
with sense of coherence and self-leadership, with a high correlation between self-leadership and sense of
coherence, and all were statistically significant. This result confirms the necessity of proper guidance
according to individual characteristics of college students in order to foster their self-leadership. Reflecting
on how the higher the grades from the previous semester and the longer the daily average study time had a higher sense of coherence and self-leadership, suggests that tailored counseling and guidance is needed
based on background variables of college students.