This study is to identify the features of teenagers' readiness to choose life strategies based on the development and application of appropriate diagnostics. The main results of the study are the specified concepts of life strategy in relation to adolescence and teenagers' readiness to choose life strategies. Another result of this study is the developed diagnostics of this readiness, the implementation of which provided a ascertaining experiment with 150 children aged 13-15. The features of teenagers' readiness to choose life strategies were found and described. The results of the study allow planning pedagogical work in educational organizations taking into account the features of the studied readiness, as well as determining and implementing the conditions for the formation of this readiness.

life strategy, teenagers, teenagers' readiness to choose life strategies; diagnostics of teenagers' readiness to choose life strategies; features of teenagers' readiness to choose life strategies.