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The article presents theoretical analysis of the problem of the inter­relation of notions «risk», «trust», and «risk motivation». It presents the perspective of social and psychological study of subculture repre­sentatives’ peculiarities; subculture group «emo» is taken as an exam­ple. Utilization of psychological and diagnostic tools («Express-scale of trust» M. Rosenberg, original questionnaire for studying expression of risk motivation) on a sample of teenagers, who belong to some subculture, allowed todetermine, that the level of trust in this group is very low.

The article presents the analysis of interconnection between subjective well-being, level of social readiness for risk based on the two samples, which include “Emo” teenagers and young people that do not attribute themselves to any informal groups. The study shows the perspectiveness of investigating youth subcultures. Psycho-diagnostic methods including E. B. Fantalov’s “Subjective well-being scale”, M. I. Rozhkov’s “Method for studying personal socialization”, and G.