Abstract
Self-esteem is a socially conditioned psychic formation, the basic conditions for its development are communicating with others and own activity of teenager. The purpose of the study was to measure self-esteem and self-esteem's structure of modern Kazakh teenagers. There is a similarity in the partial self-esteem's structure of modern Kazakh teenagers and adolescents of older generation in terms of qualities received the highest and lowest scores. The features in the general structure of the modern Kazakh teenagers’ self- esteem are revealed. This structure is a more balanced and symmetrical pattern in comparison with the general structure of self- esteem of the older generation. Thus, the features of the modern self-Kazakh teenagers’ self-esteem are, first, in its higher level in comparison with the older teenagers, and secondly, the structural similarity with the previous generation, having a particular character that speaks of continuity as well as on differences in the self-esteem between the two generations of teenagers.