This study examined the structural relationships among adolescent parent positive parenting, peer attachment, career identity, and university satisfaction, and verified the mediating effect of career identity on the relationship between adolescent parent positive parenting, peer attachment, and university satisfaction. Based on the panel data of the KCYPS (Korean Child & Youth Panel Survey) of the National Youth Policy Institute, the 6th year data of the third year high school students and the

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... th year data of the first year college students were used. A total of 1,308 data were analyzed by a structural equation model and the mediating effect was verified by bootstrapping. As a result, the direct effect of parent positive parenting on peer attachment was statistically significant and the direct effects of parent positive parenting on both career identity and university satisfaction were statistically significant. The direct effects of peer attachment on both career identity and university satisfaction were also statistically significant. In addition, the direct effect of career identity on university satisfaction was significant, and the mediating effect of career identity on parent positive parenting, peer attachment, and university satisfaction was significant statistically. These results imply that the more parent positive parenting experience, the higher the level of peer attachment can be. It also implies that the more positive parenting experience and the higher level of peer attachment of adolescents, the higher level of career identity and university satisfaction can be. Moreover, the more positive relationships with the parents, and the more positive relationship with the peers of adolescence can form the career identity positively, and the students who enter the university with a well-formed career identity can have higher levels of satisfaction in university education.