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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to test a model that examines the relationship between family functioning, parental control and depressive symptoms among Chinese Americans from adolescence to early adulthood, and to compare gender differences to address the potential need for gender-specific prevention interventions.Methods: Data for this study came from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a nationally-representative school-based study in the United States that explores health-related behaviors of 20,745 adolescents in grades 7-12, and includes an over sampling of racial/ethnic minorities.Our analysis used data from the parents report at Wave Ⅰ and adolescent in-home interviews from Waves Ⅰ to Ⅲ.The Chinese American sample for this analysis included 220 males (54.2%) and 186 females (45.8%).The mean age was 15.67 (SD=1.80) for males and 15.53 (SD=1.59) for females at Wave Ⅰ.More than half of the sample was second-generation immigrants (males 62.5%; females 54.3%).