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This study aimed to investigate the pathways from the parental over-involvement to on college students' suicidal thought with mediating effects of their self-awareness, happiness. For this purpose, this study used a data from the Korean Education Longitudinal Study, KELS, provided. The data was made up 2,500 participants(689 male college students, 1,811 female college students), who had already experienced the suicidal thought by themselves. For analysis of the data, this study applied to Structural Equation Modelling, analyzing in AMOS Statistics Program. The results of this study are as follows; First, in the female college students case, the parental over-involvement directly influenced their suicidal thought, but it did not have any effect on that in case of male students. Second, for direct effects to their suicidal thought, the self-awareness in female students influenced the their suicidal thought. Otherwise, the male students' suicidal thought was not related to the parental over-involvement. Lastly, both male and female students' suicidal thought had a effect from their happiness which was influenced by the self-awareness.