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The purpose of this study is to find the need for practical interventions to improve female adolescents' body image distortion and prevent smartphone dependence by examining the effect of female adolescents' body image distortion on smartphone dependence and the mediating effect of anxiety. For this purpose, data from middle and high school girls were used of the 16th(2020) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and the mediating effect was verified according to the three steps suggested by Baron and Kenny(1986). The research results are as follows. First, as a result of investigating the degree of body image distortion among female adolescents, it was found that 27.9% of female students had body image distortion. Second, it was found that the body image distortion of female adolescents had a significant positive effect on smartphone dependence. Third, it was found that anxiety had a partial mediating effect in the relationship between body image distortion and smartphone dependence. Based on these research results, the practical and policy implications and improvement methods were proposed in consideration of the relationship between female adolescents' body image distortion and smartphone dependence.