The main purpose of the present research was to investigate the relationship between controlling styles and time perspective in a sample of Iranian students. Controlling styles defined as the ethologic attribution of personal behavior in 4 styles (other direction, inner direction, lack of constraints on behavior and predictability of behavior). Time perspective refers to the ways in which an individual views his/her past, present and future. This construct is an unconscious cognitive structure that a person implements in the time of decision making about short term or long term goals and actions and includes past (positive or negative), present (hedonistic or fatalistic), and future time perspective. A total of 266 students (63 boys, 203 girls) were participated in this study as volunteers. They were asked to complete Personal Behaviour Inventory and Zimbardo Time perspective Inventory (ZTPI-15; in press, 2011). Results showed significant positive correlation between inner direction controlling style and present hedonistic, and significant correlation of lack of constraints on behaviour with positive hedonistic. The results also revealed significant positive correlation of inner direction controlling style with future time perspective, and past positive, and significant positive correlation of other direction controlling style with present fatalistic time perspective. Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that individuals with inner direction controlling style have a higher levels of time dimensions and time perspective.