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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of overprotective parenting behaviors towardsadolescents’ depression. This study also aims to verify mediation effect of child abuse. For these purposes,‘Korean Youth Policy Institute(NYPI)’s ‘Korean Children & Youth Panel Survey(KCYPS)’ data was utilized. Especially,elementry 4th grades panel’s 6th data was used for this study. Subjects of this study were 2,061 male andfemale students who are engaged in middle school 3rd grade. To examine the research model, SPSS ProcessMacro analysis and bootstrapping were conducted. Research findings are as below. First, overprotective parenting behaviors were positively associated with adolescents’ depression. Also,overprotective parenting behaviors were significantly associated with child abuse positively. Child abuse waspositively associated with depression. Results of bootstrapping showed that indirect effect through child abusewas statistically significant, while direct effect of overprotective parenting behaviors was not significant. Thatmeans, child abuse working as a perfect mediator between overprotective parenting behaviors and depression. Based of these results, necessities for intervention to child abuse and overprotective parenting behaviors as away to prevent child abuse were suggested.