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This study is intended to confirm relationship among children’s empathy ability, attribution style and quality of peer relationships. 421 fourth-grade to sixth-grade elementary school students(209 boys, 212 girls)were surveyed. To investigate the effects empathy ability and attribution style to peer relationship(positive and negative), we conducted hierarchical regression analysis through SPSS 22.0 program. Orders of input were children’s age & gender, attribution style, empathy ability. The result of this study is as follows. First, the more children’s empathy ability was higher, they felt the more positive with their peer relationship. And children of internal attribution style, they felt the more positive with their peer relationship too. Second, internal attribution style has negative correlation with negative peer relationship and external attribution style has positive correlation with negative peer relationship. But children’s empathy ability did not significant influence on negative peer relationship. This result suggests that when counseling with children who felt negative emotions of theirs peer relationship, it is more effective to identify the attribution style rather than applying the program to increase empathy ability. After that implications and limitations of this study were discussed.