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The study aims to examine the mediating effects of sense of community on the relation between perceived parental attitude and multicultural acceptability in college freshman. This study analyzed 1,288 data of Korean Children & Youth Panel Survey. In this study, path analysis was used to examine the mediating effect of sense of community on the multicultural acceptability. Results showed that parental attitude and sense of community had direct effects on multicultural acceptability. And path analyses revealed that sense of community partially mediated the relationship between parental attitude and multicultural acceptability. These findings emphasized the importance of sense of community as a mediating mechanism in the association between parental attitude and multicultural acceptability. On the basis of the results, practical suggestions to increase the sense of community, positive parental attitude and multicultural acceptability of college freshman were discussed.