The purpose of this study is to analyze the state of father s role performances and self-esteem of adolescents, to investigate the relation between the father s role performances recognized by adolescents and the self-esteem of adolescents, and to present the basic data for showing the importance of father s role in increasing the adolescents self-esteem. The subject of this survey was 795 male and female students of the second grade in Kwangju middle and high schools. The questionanaire was used for this study as a means of measuring. The results of this study were as follows : 1. The degrees of father s role performances were considered 82.19 points out of 125 by adolescents but rather high by the female students, it didn t have any significant difference between the male students and female. 2. The degrees of adolescents self-esteem were 51.17 points out of 85 on the whole. But specifically, the degrees of adolescents self-esteem of the male students were higher than those of the female students. This self-esteem of adolescents caused significant differences in the right to the decision-making and the father s occupation only. 3. The influence of father s role performances on the adolescents self-esteem was found very high, and more influence were showed by the female students than by the male students. 4. The order in the effective power of variables on the adolescents self-esteem was as following; the role in command and harmony, the sex, the economic role, the role in intellectual ability development. In conclusion, father s role performances were found to be important variables on the conform of adolescents self-esteem.