The papers deals with the psychological peculiarities of substantial and affective components of teenagers’ attitude to life. The paper presents the relation between the hierarchy of values and the hierarchy of needs expressing various parts, aspects and levels of human nature. The author studies the role of values in regulating the behavior and internal conditions for such regulation as a prerequisite for constructing the motivation history of teenagers. Studying the offenders’ personality, the author notes that due to various reasons offenders have quite a different personal image, lifestyle, as well as alternated nature and content of activities and meaning of their life. Such value deformation changes the whole personality and, consequently, the nature of behavior motivation. As part of the study, the paper considers the issue of affective and value components in the meaning of life. Adolescence is the age when a person undergoes intensive development of values and starts searching for the meaning of life. The author also analyzes such aspects as moral development of teenagers, disharmony of values and semantic structures, and personality development. During adolescence period, a person goes through the development of meaningful ideas and integral worldview. However, this process is not a forward movement towards the meaning of life. It is contradictory due to the particular features of the developmental age. The process of personality formation is accompanied with specific feelings and experiences associated with substantial and affective components of teenagers’ attitude towards life.