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The purpose of this study was to test the moderating effect of mother’s psychological control and mediating effect of rejection sensitivity on a relationship between adolescent’s relational victimization and interpersonal anxiety. 353 middle school students were subject to this study. For data analysis, frequency, Cronbach's α, t-test, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression were used. The results were as follows: first, female teens showed higher relational victimization, interpersonal anxiety and rejection sensitivity than their male counterparts. Second, mother's psychological control moderated the relationships between adolescent’s relational victimization and interpersonal anxiety in the case of female students. Third, rejection sensitivity partially mediated the relationships between relational victimization and interpersonal anxiety of students of both gender. Above results suggest that it is important to decrease adolescent’s relational victimization, mother's psychological control and rejection sensitivity for the sake of releasing adolescent’s interpersonal anxiety.