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The study examined the relationships between anxiety, peer attachment, and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation among adolescents. For this, the study confirmed mediating effect by anxiety as predictive variable, peer attachment as dependent variable and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation as mediating variable. This study conducted an online-questionnaire survey on 259 adolescent who were selected from some Junnam’ s middle schools regarding anxiety, peer attachment, maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation. The major findings were as follows: first, anxiety was negatively correlated with peer attachment and positively maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation. Second, adolescents’ maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation had fully mediating effects between anxiety and peer attachment. In addition, the data is analyzed in each gender. In a female group, female adolescents’ maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation had fully mediating effects between anxiety and peer attachment. These findings emphasized the role of anxiety and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation in developing programs to improve the quality of peer-relationship of adolescent.