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Objectives: This study aims to investigate the relation of parents' problematic drinking with parentification and self-esteem of adolescents to provide useful information for practitioners who want to intervene of people's drinking problem. Methods: The participants were 351 high school students (167 males and 184 females) living in Icheon and Incheon city, who were living with both parents. Psychological testings, CAST(Children of Alcoholics Screening Test), FRS-A(Filial Responsibility Scale), and Self-Esteem Scale, were used. Results: There was no significant gender difference in adolescents' parentification. Beside, females showed significantly lower self-esteem than males did. Parents' problematic drinking was positively correlated with parentification and had no relations with self-esteem. And, adolescents' parentification was negatively correlated with their self-esteem and accounted more than 18% variance of it. Mediating effect of parentification was not significant because there was no relationship parents' problematic drinking and self-esteem. Conclusion: The present study suggests that possibility of role of parents' problematic drinking in parentification of their offsprings, and parentification is critical for self-esteem in adolescence. But parentification is not taking a mediating role in parents' problematic drinking and self-esteem of adolescents.