Natalya Firsova

The article contains the results of the research, developed to the features of the self-evaluation of people of a retirement age. The criterion for the detection of the features of the self-evaluation is the comparison of the self-evaluations in groups of the unemployed and working retirees. This research pays attention to the necessity of creation the special conditions, which helps to raise the self-evaluation of elderly people and provides smooth entry into a new social situation.