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The purpose of this study was to examine the influences of elementary school students’s family problems on their smartphone overdependence and to verify multiple mediating effects of their anger and ADHD tendency on those influences. In capital area, 665 4-6th students using a smartphone from 4 elementary schools were surveyed about their family problems, smartphone overdependence, anger and ADHD tendency. Structural Equation Modeling was used to analyze the gathered data. Multiple mediating effects were verified by bootstrapping analysis. The major results were as follows. First, the family problems could increase smartphone overdependence directly and indirectly. Second, ADHD tendency could increase smartphone overdependence directly. Third, anger also could increase smartphone overdependence indirectly. Last, multiple mediating effects analysis indicated that the family problems increased anger, and the increased anger could exacerbate ADHD tendency, and then exacerbated ADHD tendency could augment their smartphone overdependence. This study provides the basic data in order to develope effective smartphone overdependence preventing & intervening programs for elementary school students.