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This study aimed to clarify the effects of parental intimacy and optimism on middle school students’ learning motivation and school life satisfaction through the mediating variable of learning motivation. The relationship between children and their parents is an important variable that affects school life. It also affects personality formation. To this end, data collected through a questionnaire survey of 380 middle school students in Gyeonggi Province, who were convenience-sampled, were analyzed. The research questions set for this study were to examine the differences in school life satisfaction according to the general characteristics of the subjects and to clarify the relationship among parental intimacy, optimism, learning motivation, and school life satisfaction. The results of the study are as follows. As a result of analyzing the differences in middle school students' satisfaction with school life, it was found that there were significant differences in grade and parental education level. The first graders showed higher satisfaction with school life than the second and third graders, and the higher the parental education level, the higher the satisfaction with school life. In addition, as a result of examining the significance of the estimated coefficient for the research model, it was found that parental intimacy and optimism affected middle school students' satisfaction with school life through learning motivation. Specifically, parental intimacy and optimism increased middle school students' motivation to learn, and the higher the motivation to learn, the higher the satisfaction with school life. Therefore, in order to increase middle school students' satisfaction with school life, it is necessary to increase parents' intimacy with their children and for middle school students themselves to make efforts to be optimistic.