Аннотация:Personal self-determination of pupils of the ninth - eleventh classes was experimentally investigated by preference identification of school students of basic and educational values (taking into account importance and availability ratio) depending on motivation type (dominating emotional relation). It is shown that the importance and availability of studied groups of values substantially defined by the current (dominating) motivation. The tendency of opposition of the conscientious and emotional attitude to values – the values being highly attractive in motivational and emotional plan is found, at the level of consciousness are underestimated in comparison with others. It is shown that in the presence of socially approved universal values, at compatibility with strategic objectives and an orientation of development of social groups, the semantic unity of motivational system that provides adequate regulation of behavior and further personal development is formed.