The purpose of this study is to explore the existing relationships between the characteristic behaviors of child rearing practice of their parents and the personal and social adjustments of adolescent. 321 sophomores from six different junior high school in Taipei City are selected as subjects. They are further divided into upper and lower classes according to their socio-economic status. Both Parent-child Relation Questionnaire by Roe & Siegelman and Califarina test of personality are given to the subjects. According to their responses, the following results have been found. 1. Parents from upper and lower classes are different in their child rearing behaviors parents from upper class incline to be more loving, protecting, and using more psychological rewards than parents from lower class, parents from lower class, on the contrary, are more rejecting, neglecting and using more punishment than parents from upper class. 2. Generally speaking, girls from upper class have better personal and social adjustment than girls from lower. However, the same trend is not found is boys. 3. The personal and social adjustments of adolescent are very closely related to the characteristic behaviors of child rearing of their parents. Such variables as loving, protecting, causual, psychological and physical reward are positively currelated to the personal and social adjustments of adolescent. And parental demanding, neglecting, rejecting, psychological and physical punishment are negatively correlated to adolescents´ personal and social adjustments. 4. Girls are more readilly to be influeneed by the child rearing behaviors of their parents than boys. 5. Parental child rearing behavior has deeper influences on the personal adjustment of adolescents than their social adjustment. 6.The subjects´ intelligence is not related to their adjustment as well as their perceived parental child rearing behaviors.