Objective To provide instructions for attributional training of adolescents' depression by comparing multidimensional attribution model of depressed adolescents with that of non-depressed adolescents. Method Three questionnaires including the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CSE-D),academic attribution scale and communicative attibution scale were used to investigate 550 teenagers those were adopted by cluster sampling from grade 1 in junior high school to grade 3 in senior high school,and 492 valid datas were analyzed by SPSS 17.0. Results In terms of positive events,depressed adolescents' scores in external,unstable,uncontrollable factor (EUU) were significantly lower than the non-depressed (academic:t=3.582;communicative:t=3.501,all P<0.01).In terms of negative events,depressed adolescents' academic attribution scores in internal stable uncontrollable factor (ISU) internal unstable controllable factor (IUC),internal unstable uncontrollable factor (IUU) were significantly lower than the non-depressed (t=6.464,4.198,5.814,P<0.001),and depressed adolescents' communicative attribution scores in internal stable controllable factor(ISC),internal stable uncontrollable factor (ISU),external stable controllable factor (ESC),external,unstable,controllable factor (EUC) were significantly lower than the non-depressed (t=4.403,3.364,4.750,5.042,P<0.01). Conclusions There are characterisctics with consistency and contextuality in attributional dimensions for depressed adolescents.Depressed adolescents tend to attribute negative events to lack of ability,while attribute positive events to luck.Attribution model of depressed adolescents in academic is not absolutely consistent with that in communication,but attribution dimensions in communicative failure reflect the negative integration of self cognition and social cognition.