Sampling 216 university students at random to carry out questionnaire survey about parental rearing patterns and future time perspective of university students,we conducted research work on the relationship between parental rearing patterns and future time perspective.The research results indicate the fact that parental rearing patterns have close relationship with future time perspective.The parental rearing patterns can directly influence the future time perspective of university students;moreover,democratic parental rearing patterns can positively influence the predicting capacity of future time perspective of university students.