The purpose of this study is the investigation of the relationship between the parental attitudes (mother-father) and the decision making strategies. This research was conducted on 500 students attending classes at the Ankara University, Faculty of Educational Sciences and in the Gazi Univesity the Faculyt of Gazi Education during 1994-1995 Academic year. In this study two scales were used to collected the data. One of them was the "Parental Attitude Scale" which has been revised for the purpose and the other was the "Decision Making Scale" developed by Kuzgun. The Parental Attitude Scale has sub-scales named Democratic, Protective-Demanding, and Authoritarian and the Decision Making Strategies scale has Rational, Independent, Impulsif and Indecisive sub- scales. As a result of computation of the relationship between the points of two scales a positive correlation were observed between rational decision making and democratic parental attitude and a negative correlation between authoritarian parental attitude and rational decision making. Also there is a positive correlation among indecisive and protective-demandig, authoritarian parental attitudes. These correlations are significant at the level of 0.01 but not very strong.