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The results of student’s moral conceptions studying are presented here. Are include the conception about morality, its role in the modern society, about the universal values, shame, and conscience. The peculiarities of student’s emotional and moral estimation of their generation are marked out here. It is established, that cognitive and emotional components of students’ moral conceptions are depend on education speciality.

Research focuses on studying social representations of students about conscience. The use of two complementary research methods of social representations reveals both conscious and rational opinions about the young people of conscience and poorly conscious mean­ings and associations connected with the phenomenon of conscience. The results showed that the core of representations of young people of conscience has a positively stained category as a conscious and the conscious in weak form.

The article views the interrelation between strategies of coping with stress, satisfaction with social support and the ideas of elderly people about conscience, which act as a reflection of the assertion of moral values in the respondent’s daily life. The study involved 55 elderly people, whose average age was 62.4 years, among them 40 women and 15 men.