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Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of self-esteem and stress-resistance of adolescents in the context of their dependence on the respondents' views about the attitude of parents to them. The relevance of this subject is related to the fact that adolescence is the time when the formation of individual and personal characteristics takes place, and the key role in this process belongs to the teenager's perception of the parents’ attitude towards him/her. In the empirical research, the following methods were used: the Questionnaire "Adolescents about Parents" (ADOR) by L.Vasserman, I. Gorkova and E. Romitsina; the Drawing Test "Man in the Rain" by T. Zinkevich-Evstigneeva and D. Kudzilova; a Method of Self-Esteem Measurement by Dembo-Rubinstein (in the version of A.Prikhozhan). The main hypothesis of the study is that there is a connection between self-esteem, stress-resistance of adolescents and their perception of the parents’ attitude to them. The higher the adolescents evaluate the level of positive parental interest and the degree of acceptance by their parents, the higher is their level of self-esteem and stress resistance. The hypothesis was partially confirmed: the existence of the dependence between self-esteem of adolescents and their perception of the parental attitude was proved, but the assumption of a link between stress-resistant adolescents and their perceptions of the parents’ attitude was not confirmed. According to the results of the study, self-esteem of adolescents is, in a greater degree, related to their perception of the attitude of mothers towards them and, to a lesser extent, of the attitude of fathers. The hypothesis that there are differences in self-esteem, stress resistance and perception of parental attitudes among 13-14 year-old (seventh graders) and 16-17 year-old adolescents (tenth graders) has also been partially confirmed: the differences were established in a number of scales of self-esteem, in perceptions of the parental attitude, but they were not established in stress-resistance. The hypothesis that in adolescents with sufficient stress resistance, self-esteem is higher than in adolescents with insufficient stress resistance, was also confirmed by the research