Objectives To explore the mediating role of self-acceptance between parenting style and social phobia, so as to provide evidence for the formulation of intervention plan. Methods A total of 1 253 students from secondary vocational schools were recruited as the research subject. A cross-sectional study was carried out with the Brief Social Phobia Scale( BSPS), the Self-Acceptance Questionnaire( SAQ) and Egma Minnen av Bardndosnauppforstran( EMBU). The structure equation model and bootstrap were adopted to verify the mediating effect of self-acceptance between parenting style and social phobia. Results Apart from parental preference factor, social phobia is significantly correlated with 9 factors of parenting style( Ps<0.01). Social phobia is significantly negatively correlated with self-acceptance and self-assessment( Ps< 0.01). Selfacceptance and self-assessment are significantly correlated with most factors of parenting style( Ps<0.01). The structural equation model showed that self-acceptance played a fully mediation role between parenting style and social phobia( χ2/df=5.50, RMSEA=0.060, CFI=0.973, TLI=0.961, SRMR=0.047). Bootstrapping indicated that the mediating effect of self-acceptance accounted for 76.47%. Conclusions Self-acceptance has a fully mediating effect between parenting style and social phobia.