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This research was to verify if academic self-efficacy plays a mediating role between the relation of parental career-related behaviors perceived by elementary school students and career-aspiration. The result of the research can be summarized as follows. First, in the correlations among parental career-related behaviors perceived by elementary school students(support for career, career intrusiveness, lack of parental interest in career), academic self-efficacy and career-aspiration, career support shows a positive correlation with academic self-efficacy and career support. Career intrusiveness shows a positive correlation with career aspiration while academic self-efficacy shows no meaningful effect with academic self-efficacy. Also, lack of parental interest in career shows a negative correlation with career aspiration and academic self-efficacy. Second, the search studied if academic self-efficacy has mediating effects in the relation between parental career-related behaviors (support for career, career intrusiveness, lack of parental interest in career) and career aspiration. The research proved that academic self-efficacy partially mediated in the relation between career support and aspiration. Based on such result, the search discussed implications and Imitations, and future direction of the study.