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This study investigated how the mother’s psychological control influence over the self-soothing ability , anxiety and depression among Korean elementary School students. It also examined the mediation effect of self soothing ability in the relationship among the mother’s psychological control and anxiety and depression . The subjects were a total of 439 male and female 5th and 6th grade elementary school students attending elementary schools located inin Incheon metro politan city and Kyonggi province. For data process, correlation analysis was used to examine the relation among mother’s psychological control influence the self-soothing ability, anxiety and depression. Pearson correlation analysis was implemented to assess the relation of mother’s psychological control influence, self-soothing ability, anxiety and depression And to verify the mediation model, route analysis using AMOS 5.0 was implemented. The results of the study are as follows: First, The mother’s psychological control has significant correlations with the anxiety and depression. As a result of looking at the relationship among the mother’s psychological control and the self-soothing ability and relationship among the self-soothing ability and the anxiety and depression. And, second, the significant mediated effect was shown greater when it is the partial mediated effect that influence on depression through the self-soothing ability at the same time of influencing on depression directly by the mother’s psychological control; however, in the relationship among mother’s psychological control and anxiety of child, the self-soothing ability adopts the fully mediated model that has the mother’s psychological control influencing on the anxiety through the self-soothing ability. These results suggest that it raised the need for developing and applying counseling program and childhood education to advance the self-soothing ability of children.