Abstract
Depressive symptoms among adolescents are common in the world, depressive symptoms could increase the risk of physical and mental health, interpersonal relationship, social adaption in later life. Hence, the prevention of depressive symptom among adolescents have been valued by scholars and plenty studies have been conducted from the perspective of gene, environment and the inter connectivity between gene and environment. The environment adolescents faced can be divided into family environment, school environment and social environment. This study reviews the controllable factors in three environments and provides references for the prevention and control of depressive symptoms among adolescents.