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This study examined to what extent self-esteem and attachment to parents are associated with adolescents’ longitudinal trajectories of depression. This study used three waves of longitudinal data from Gyeonggi Education Panel Study(GEPS, 2012-2014). Subjects were the 4051 adolescents(2084 boys, 1967 girls) in the middle school. The latent class growth model and the multinominal logistic regression were used for data analysis. This study identified four distinct longitudinal trajectories of depression in male adolescents: the first group with moderate but sharp decrease in depression, the second group with low but sharp increase in depression, the third group with consistently moderate levels of depression, and the fourth group with consistently low levels of depression. The multinominal logistic regression analysis revealed that male adolescents with lower self-esteem and attachment to parents was related to the odds of following consistently moderate levels of depression trajectory. This study identified five distinct longitudinal trajectories of depression in female adolescents: the first group with moderate but decrease in depression, the second group with consistently low levels of depression, the third group with low but increase in depression, the fourth group with moderate but sharp decrease in depression, and the fifth group with consistently high levels of depression. The multinominal logistic regression analysis revealed that female adolescents with lower self-esteem and attachment to parents was related to the odds of following consistently high levesl of depression trajectory.