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The purposes of this study were 1) to investigate the effects of predictors(i.e., depression, anxiety and parents' laissez-faire parenting) on a criterion(i.e., internet addiction), and 2) to examine the moderating effects of self-control on this predictor-criterion relationship. It is hypothesized that self-control moderate the relationships between depression and internet addiction, anxiety and internet addiction and parents' laissez-faire parenting and internet addiction, respectively. Total number of participants was 1183(685 male middle school students and 487 male high school students). The results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that all 3 predictors(i.e., depression, anxiety, and parents's laissez-faire parenting) were significant to explain the criterion(i.e., internet addiction). These analyses showed the following results. That is, the higher the depression and anxiety, the higher the level of internet addiction of participants. Also, parents' laissez-faire parenting had positive relationship with internet addiction. The results implied that internet addiction could be mitigated by high level of self-control even under laissez-faire parents.