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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impacts of academic stress of university students on their smartphone overdependence, and to examine the multiple mediating effects of their job-seeking stress and depression symptom over those impacts. In the study, 513 university students in Daegu and Gyeongbuk area were surveyed about their level of academic and job-seeking stress, depression symptom and smartphone overdependence. Major results were as followings. First, academic and job-seeking stress of university students could increase their depression symptoms and smartphone overdependence directly and/or indirectly. Second, the university students’ job-seeking stress and depression symptoms had significant multiple mediating effects over the impacts of the academic stress on their smartphone overdependence. In detail, the university students’ academic stress could increase their job-seeking stress, and then the increased job-seeking stress could exacerbate depression symptoms and, finally the exacerbated depression symptoms could aggravate their smatphone overdependence. The results of the study indicate that psychological and emotional problems such as academic and job-seeking stress, and depression symptoms should be considered when developing prevention and remediation programs of university students’ smartphone overdependence.