Organizational research has uncovered that stress experience not only have negative aspects but also positive aspects on mental health, so we explored the effect of stressful life events on adolescent’s self-esteem in the similar frame. We hypothesized that stressful life events had a total positive effect on adolescent’s self-esteem, with positive effect through the mediating role of presence of meaning, negative effect through the mediating role of passive network using, and negative effect through the serial mediating role of passive network using and presence of meaning. 605 adolescents (304 males; M±SD=14.82±1.56) participated in the study. Using the Meaning of Life Questionnaire (MLQ), Adolescent Stressful Life Events Questionnaire (ASLEC), Passive Use of Social Network Use Scale (PUSNU) and Self-esteem Scale were used to survey adolescent students. The data was analyzed by SPSS 24.0 and Mplus7.4. The results showed that: (1) Stressful life events had a total positive effect on self-esteem (β=.20, p<.01). (2) Passive network using mediated the relationship between stressful life events and self-esteem (-.0254