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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of self-esteem and depression on the academic achievement and school maladjustment mediated by mobile phone dependency. Data were obtained from the Korean Child-Youth Panel Survey(KCYPS). Structural equation modeling was employed for statistical analyses. On the results of this study, self-esteem has not significant effect on the mobile phone dependency, whereas depression showed significantly positive influence on the mobile phone dependency. Mobile phone dependency showed significantly negative influence on the academic achievement and significantly positive influence on the school maladjustment. Also, self-esteem showed significantly positive influence on the academic achievement and significantly negative influence on the school maladjustment. But depression has not significant effect on the academic achievement and school maladjustment. On the analysis results of mediation effect, mobile phone dependency was significantly mediated the effects of depression on the academic achievement and school maladjustment. Based on these results, we suggested the method to increase the academic achievement and decrease school maladjustment.