Introduction. Trust in general and self-trust in particular is an essential condition for the development and psychological well-being of an individual. The article is devoted to the specifi cs of self-trust in adolescents, who are brought up in conditions of family deprivation. Purpose. To study and compare the level of self-trust among adolescents that live in parental families and orphanages, and also to study the infl uence of having a family on self-trust among respondents. Materials and methods. A refl exive questionnaire of the level of self-trust by Skripkina was used to analyze the level of self-trust. It refl ects the degree of self-trust in various areas of life that are important for adolescents. Adolescents from parental families and orphanages were the sampling unit. A total of 176 Russian adolescents were surveyed (82 males and 94 females); 97 of them live in parental families (43 males and 54 females), 79 adolescents are brought up in an orphanage (39 males and 40 females). Results. The adolescents brought up in conditions of family deprivation, experience diffi culties in self-trust manifestation in those areas of life that are unresolved tasks of the previous age: Relationships with parents, in the educational and intellectual fi elds. The research clearly shows the infl uence of family presence on the development of self-trust in adolescents. Conclusion. Our data indicate a high infl uence of the family factor on the development of selftrust, and, as a consequence, on the lack of it in adolescents brought up in conditions of family deprivation.