Correlation of Objective Living Conditions of Moscow Youth with Indi-cators of Subjective Satisfaction with Life Opportunities and Deprivations

Life chances are a complex phenomenon that includes a heterogeneous ratio of opportunities and deprivations within several domains of public life, capable of determining an individual’s position in social stratifica-tion. The article presents the results of an empirical testing of hypotheses aimed at establishing the significance of the quality of objective living conditions of young Russians aged 25–30, living and working in Moscow, in the for-mation of subjective satisfaction with existing realities in the areas of employment, financial situation, health status and maintenance, educational and leisure activities. The object is the youth of Moscow including New Moscow, the subject is the peculiarities of life chances of Moscow residents as a heterotopic metropolis. The results of the study showed that young people, like many other representative groups of Russian society, value care, support and provided favorable conditions to the extent that it allows them to feel satisfied with life opportunities and patiently withstand existing deprivations. The mass nature of the phenomenon, which provides for dissatisfaction with one’s life even under conditions of maximum objective material security and diversity of hedonistic practices, as well as the opposite situation implying maximum possible deprivation while maintaining hope for positive changes and a high degree of satisfaction with current life circumstances, has not been confirmed.