A comparative analysis has been performed of the psychological time and of the locus of control in well-off senior schoolchildren and in their delinquent age-peers with a history of alcohol-addiction. It has been found out that the youth from the second group are more pessimistic in their life length expectations, see their future life less rich in important events, regard the present as empty and of low value; also their attitude to life is manifestly hedonistic, while they rather poorly control the flow of their life activities. Some dimensions of the subjective picture of the life passage are outlined which can serve as supports in the therapeutic work connected with prevention of early alcoholism and with rehabilitation of young delinquents.