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The study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of traumatic belief on the relation between Complex Trauma and Obsessive-compulsive symptoms. This research was done by conducting surveys from 350 university students who are attending universities in Gwangju and Jeonnam area. The results was used both correlation analysis and regression analysis method. The result are as followed. First, there is a significance correlation among Complex trauma experience, traumatic belief and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Second, traumatic belief shows the mediating effect between complex trauma and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. It shows the possibility to increase obsessive-compulsive symptoms because the levels of complex traumatic experience and traumatic belief are high. This study is worthful for demonstrating the effect of traumatic belief in terms of predicting the compulsive symptoms after complex traumatic experience. Implications and suggestions to further research are discussed.