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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of parenting behavior and parent-adolescent communication on adolescent's leadership. The subjects were 218 middle school students from two middle schools located in incheon area. Data was collected using adolescent's leadership index, parenting behavior inventory, and parent-adolescent communication index, and statistically analyzed using t-test, one-way ANOVA(Duncan test), and multiple regression analysis. This study showed that there were some significant differences in adolescent's leadership according to the adolescent's gender, father education, economic status of the home. There were some significant differences adolescent's leadership according to the parenting behavior, autonomous and acceptance behavior, and to the parent-adolescent open communication. It was also found that adolescent's gender, father education, mother education, acceptance parenting behavior, open communication were all significant predictors of the adolescent's leadership. Implications based on this study are as follows : in order to increase the adolescent's leadership, parent should be more autonomous and acceptance and have open communication with their adolescent.