The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the self-attitude of adolescents prone to deviant behavior. Adolescents with "difficult" behavior are seen as deviant children. This is due to the fact that children with "difficult" behavior constitute a risk group for deviant adolescents.

Adolescents with "difficult" behavior are more prone to deviant behavior than normal children.

In adolescence, self-consciousness develops intensively. At the same time, self-consciousness is a condition for the development of personality. Human self-consciousness is a set of mental processes associated with the separation of a person from the outside world, the definition of his personality, a change in his attitude to his past, present and future. Self-consciousness allows a person to recognize and experience his inner world, depict it and relate to himself in a certain way, that is, self-consciousness is not only a cognitive, but also an emotional, often unconscious attitude towards oneself.

The article describes the features of the self-attitude of adolescents prone to deviant behavior.