This study examined the effects of parental behavioral control and psychological control on adolescent depression, as well as the possible mediation effect of psychological control in those processes. To do so, we examined 377 senior high school students (mean age=15.30 years) from five major cities in Taiwan. In addition, the study examined whether the influences of parental behavioral and psychological control on adolescent depression were consistent between Western and East Asian cultures. Adolescent reported on perceived parental behavioral control, psychological control and their own depression. The results of t-test analyses showed that gender differences were found to be significant in maternal behavioral control, female participants in this sample were significantly higher in maternal behavioral control. Given the results of correlational analyses showed that adolescents’ perceptions of their paternal behavioral control and maternal behavioral control were related significantly and negatively to their paternal psychological control and maternal psychological control. Participants’ perceptions of maternal behavioral control were related significantly and negatively to their paternal psychological control and maternal psychological control. Furthermore, the results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that parental behavioral control was not directly related to adolescent depression. However, parental psychological control directly influenced the adolescent depression and the mediation effect of psychological control between behavioral control and adolescent depression was statistically significant. These findings suggested that parental psychological control plays a more significant role vis-a-vis adolescent depression than the behavioral control of parenting on Taiwan adolescent depression.