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Abstract : This study examined natural groupings of people in terms of academic stress, defense mechanism style and their difference in elementary school students's mental health. 365 male and female elementary school students in the Metropolitan area were surveyed. The cluster of academic stress and defense mechanism style divided students into such sub-groups as a low stress-mature defense mechanism group, high stress-neurotic defense mechanism group, middle stress-rare use of defense mechanism group, high stress-immature defense mechanism group. And there were differences in elementary school student's mental health among these groups. Particularily there's difference between low stress-mature defense mechanism group and high stress-immature defense mechanism group. This results suggest that it's important to put emphasis on evaluation and intervention about their defense mechanism styles and level of academic stress for elementary school students under academic stress in guidance and counseling. Finally, the study's limitation and further discussion were suggested.