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The purpose of the study was to explore the smartphone dependence tendency and family function perceived by youth and to find out mediating effect of stress coping strategies. The participants in this study were 313 youths attending middle school, high school, college located in jeon-buk. Spss 25.0 and PROCESS macro 35.0 program were used for descriptive analysis. The results were as follows: first, difference analysis according to gender, male students showed higher family function and passive coping strategies in comparison with female students. And significant differences were found in active coping and passive coping strategies according to grades. Second, it was verified that family function affect stress coping strategies, family function to smartphone dependence, and stress coping strategies to smartphone dependence. Third, the partial mediating effect of passive coping style(wishful thinking) was significant in the influence of family function on smartphone dependence. These results provide important implications for the counseling intervention of youth who are dependent on smartphones.