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This research aims to discover the mediated effect of rejection sensitivity and internalized shame from a mother's psychological control and children's peer relationships. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was conducted for 371 male and female 5th and 6th grade elementary school students in Incheon Metropolitan City & Kyong-gi Province by using a scale of psychological control, a scale of peer relationships, a scale of rejection sensitivity, and a scale of internalized shame. Collected data was analyzed by SPSS WIN 18.0 program. The results of this research are summarized as follows: First, after looking into the correlation between the mother's psychological control and children's peer relationship, it was found that there is a negative correlation between the mother's psychological control and peer relationships. That is, if the mother's psychological control increases, the quality of children's peer relationships decreases. Also, each relationship had positive correlation according to an examination of relationship between mother's psychological control, rejection sensitivity and internalized shame, and this means that children's rejection sensitivity and internalized shame increase at the same time the mother's psychological control grows. Subsequently, in the investigation of the relationship between rejection sensitivity, internalized shame and peer relationship, negative correlation was noted for each one. That means higher rejection and internalized shame result in lower-quality peer relationships for children. In short, the higher the mother's psychological control results in higher rejection sensitivity and internalized shame of children, and it also reduces the quality of children's peer relationships. Second, as the result of the verification of a mediated effect for rejection sensitivity and internalized shame in the relationship among mother's psychological control and children's peers relationships, a partial mediated model, that mother's psychological control directly has an effect on children's peer relationships while it also has an effect on peer relationships through rejection sensitivity and internalized shame, It demonstrated that the mother's psychological control has a direct effect on peer relationships. However, it is negative effect on peer relationships by affecting children's psychology and causing their rejection sensitivity and internalized shame. Finally, the study's limits and further discussion were suggested.