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The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating effects of moral identity the relationships between danger invulnerability and risk behavior and to investigate the mediating effects of peer attachment the relationships between psychological invulnerability and depression of adolescents. The subjects of the study were 394 adolescents who were selected from second grade of middle school and first grade of high school in Pusan. Measuring scales used in this study are the Adolescent Invulnerability Scale(AIS), Risk Behavior Scale, CES-D, Moral Identity Scale, and peer attachment subscale of the IPPA. For data analysis, Cronbach’s α, frequency, partial correlation, hierarchical regression, multiple regression, and Sobel test were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS ver. 23 program. The major findings of this study were as follows: First, adolescents’ danger invulnerability had positive correlations with risk behavior and depression in partial correlation analysis. Adolescents’ psychological invulnerability had negative correlations with depression in partial correlation analysis. Second, moderating effect of moral identity between adolescents’ danger invulnerability and risk behavior was significant. Third, mediating effect of peer attachment between adolescents’ psychological invulnerability and depression was significant. The results suggest the importance of increasing adolescents’ moral identity in prevention of risk behavior and adolescents’ peer attachment in prevention of depression during adolescence.