Analisis of psychological literature on the psy-chological peculiarities of teenagers and the re-sults of the author's questionnaire made it possible to outline a comparative characteristic of teenagers of the 70-80-s and teenagers of today. It has been found out that the social-econonomic changes of the last years in Russia lead to great changes in social-psychological portrait of a modern teenager. Knowing of this change is considered as a condition of creating of edu-cative programs for teenagers and of correctional-developing work with them.