摘要:The purpose of this study is to explain the effectiveness of parental attitudes, socio-economic status and gender in determining the predictors of child lifestyles. The study group consists of three hundred and fifty (350) eighth grade students studying in the province of Erzincan during the 2012-2013 academic year; the students are selected by stratified sampling method. The scale of child lifestyles developed by Stiles (1992), adapted to Turkish by Özpolat et al (2012) is used in the study; in addition to this, the scale of parental attitudes, developed by Kuzgun (1972) and revised by Eldeleklioğlu (1996) is used and data collection form is applied. Data are analyzed by using SPSS package program.