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The main purpose of the study was to examine the relations between leisure participation of adolescent, stress relief and school adjustment. In addition, mediating effects of stress relief between adolescents’ leisure participation and school adjustment were examined. The subjects were 420(220 male, 200 female) students in 2nd grade middle schools at M city in Jeonnam province. They completed Questionnaire of Leisure Participation, Stree Relief Questionnaire, and School Adjustment Questionnaire. Statistical analyses of data were frequency, mean, standard deviation, t-test, Pearson Correlation, 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, male adolescents showed higher sport and recreation participation than female adolescents while female adolescents showed higher appreciation participation than male adolescents. Male adolescents showed higher stress relief than female adolescents. Also male adolescents showed higher scores in academic achievement, teacher relationship and school life than female adolescents. Second, sport participation was positively correlated to stress relief and peer relationship, cultural activity participation was positively correlated to stress relief, academic achievement, and peer relationship, and recreation participation was negatively correlated to stress relief and academic achievement for male adolescents. However sport participation was positively correlated to school life and cultural activity participation was positively correlated to teacher relationship for female adolescents. Third, for male adolescents, stress relief had partial mediating effects between sport participation and peer relationship, and full mediating effects between cultural activity participation and academic achievement, and between cultural activity participation and peer relationship. For femlae adolescents, stress relief had full mediating effects between cultural activity participation and school life.