The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships between junior high school students and their significant others as a contributing factor in the onset of violent behavior. The samples for the study were 356 junior high school students in Tainan. A nested logistic regression technique was used to analyze the data. The study tried to determine whether parent-child, teacher-student and peer relationships influenced the early stages of adolescent violence. It also investigated the degree to which adolescents with deviant behavior stimulated this behavior in their friends and in turn were reinforced by these same friends in such behavior. The results showed that a student's association with deviant peers indeed made more probable the onset of adolescent violent behavior in that student. And that parent-child, teacher-student, and peer relations could have both positive and negative effects on the onset of such violent behavior in junior high students.