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.
