Abstract: Social feeling of person reflects the level and character of social tension in society. Social tension creates both psycho-physiological fear and social fear. Social studies of students in 1996, 2008 and 2012 allowed detecting dynamics of occurrence of objective, subjective and socio-psychological character of social fear, its connection with living conditions of young men. The following point have been defined: influence of gender, type of dwelling and educational form on appearance of this social phenomenon in youth environment. All factors are grouped in the following way: the first group stands for institutional and regulative factors (state as social and political institute of power, legal culture and legal behavior, system of cultural and moral values of society); the 2nd group represents social and psychological factors (fear complex, uncertainty about the future, destruction of society’s integrity); the 3rd group represents structural and functional factors (political and economical situation in society, role and place of social organizations in human’s life); the 4th group represents individual and personal factors (family and the person himself). The main factor that “destroys” the feeling of safety of the person is in students’ opinion of socio-institutional character. Analysis of fears’ structure and character of social vulnerability allowed detecting social sources that cause the largest influence on social feeling of modern students. They include: present social circumstances, personal life experience of students, media. Fears that formed under the influence of economic and political processes in 1996 became less prominent at students in 2012. During the past period social fears moved to the area of personal life of the youth which is conditioned by switch in cultural and moral priorities in post-soviet period. Students realize that they need to “fight for their place in the sun” for themselves in conditions of stuff competiveness not only on labor market but in personal life as well.