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The main purpose of the study was to examine the relation between perceived parent- adolescent child communication and social competence. In addition, this study examined the mediating effects of self-resilience and empathy between parent-adolescent child communication and social competence. The subjects were 350(170 male, 180 female) students in 2nd and 3rd grade of two middle schools at M city in Jeonnam province. They completed Parent Adolescent Communication Inventory(PACI), Ego Resiliency Scale, Interpersonal Reactivity Index(IRI), and Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire(ICQ). Statistical analyses of data were frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple Regression. Sobel test were used to examine the significance of mediating effects. Cronbach's alpha was computed for the reliability of the scales. SPSSWIN 21.0 was used for data analysis. The results were as follows: First, father-adolescent open communication and mother-adolescent open communication were positively correlated to adolescents’ self- resilience, empathy and social competence. However father-adolescent closed communication and mother- adolescent closed communication were negatively correlated to adolescents’ self-resilience and social competence and were not significantly correlated to empathy. Second, self-resilience had partial mediating effects between fatheradolescent open communication and social competence and between mother-adolescent open communication. However self-resilience had full medicating effect between father-adolescent closed communication and had partial medicating effect between mother-adolescent closed communication. Third, empathy had partial mediating effects between father- adolescent open communication and social competence and between mother-adolescent open communication and social competence. However empathy had no medicating effect between father-adolescent closed communication and social competence and between mother- adolescent closed communication and social competence.