“Kindness” as an aspect of teenagers’ values

The article shows the experiment results based upon the questionnaire in two groups of Moscow schoolchildren of the same age in order to identify the content of the value kindness. We defi ned diff erent meanings of the value kindness in two groups of the respondents. This result was used as the basis for the personal development vector determination of teenagers and youth and we came to two completely diff erent conclusions. On the one hand, the fi rst group believes that kindness is a life position, on the other hand, the second group thinks that kindness is an emotional experience.