and psychological adjustment and stress the individual pupils of the senior classes of secondary schools in 2015, 2013 and 2011. The basic modern approaches to the understanding of social and – psychological adaptation of personality and phenomena associated with it. The application of the methodology «Social-psychological adaptation» by C. Rogers and R. Diamond, the Mini-Mult checklist (MMPI), the methods of the comparable analysis allowed to find the peculiarities of the adaptational potential of the personality of the senior pupils in the changing conditions of society.