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Objectives: This study is intended to reveal how social support affect A.A.members’ mental health. The objective is to ascertain whether spirituality and insight mediate by examining the effects of spirituality and insight, and investigates the path process among variables. Method: To achieve this objective, social supports were defined as independent variables, spirituality and insight as mediating variables, and mental health as the dependent variable. Subjects for this study consisted of 375 A.A.members. The results of the study are summarized as follows. Result: First, the study showed that the higher the A.A.member's social support the lesser the level of mental health problems. Employment was the most influential factor on mental health. Second, the higher the A.A.member's social support the higher the level of spirituality and insight. Third, social support influenced mental health thorough spirituality and insight. This indicated that social support had a direct influence on mental health, and spirituality and insight had a mediating effect on the relationship between social support and mental health. Conclusion: Study implications were discussed in terms of ways to improve psychiatric social worker’s programs with regard to rehabilitation and treatment methods for chronic alcoholic patients.