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The major purpose of this study was to explore the effects of multicultural friends experiences, personal and environmental variables on Adolescent's multicultural attitudes. Personal variables were adolescent's national identity, life goals, empathy, life satisfaction. Environmental variables were parent's multicultural perception, peer relations, multicultural media experiences. The subjects were a total of 321 adolescents. For data analysis, descriptive analysis and Pearson's correlation coefficeints, multiple regression were used. The main results were as follows: first, multicultural friends experiences, civic national identity, life goals, empathy, life satisfaction, parent's multicultural perception, peer relations, multicultural media experiences were positively correlated with adolescent's multicultural attitudes. Second, The effects of multicultural friends experience were not significant when analyzing personal variables and environmental variables. Third, it affected adolescent's multicultural attitudes in numerical order intrinsic life goals, multicultural media experiences, parent's multiculrual perception, empathy, and peer relations. Furthermore, basic data to explore the ways of intervening with adolescents' multicultural attitudes could be introduced.