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This research was aimed at empirically verifying the effects of the depression and self-effectiveness of university students on their personal relationship and examining the medium effect of appearance satisfaction in those casual relationships. To achieve such goals, this research set the following research problems. First, are the depression, self-effectiveness, appearance satisfaction, and personal relationship trends of university students different according to the demographic characteristics? Second, is there any correlation among the depression, self-effectiveness, appearance satisfaction, and personal relationship trends of university students? Third, what effects do the depression, self-effectiveness, and appearance satisfaction of university students on their personal relationship trends? Fourth, does appearance satisfaction have the medium effect in the relationship between the depression and self-effectiveness and their personal relationship trends? For those problems, a questionnaire survey was conducted for 600 university students living in Seoul, Chungcheongnam-do, and Jeollabuk-do, and while 591 questionnaires were collected, a total of 572 questionnaires were finally used to analyze data after excluding unfaithful and unmarked questionnaires. By using PASW statistics 18.0 and AMOS 16.0 statistics analysis program, t and F verification, the correlation analysis, and the multiple regression analysis were conducted for data.