The article reveals the content of the subjective experience of mental states. The subjective experience of mental states contains a wide range of indicators that reflect various manifestations of person’s experience, internal and external determinants of mental states. We studied the subjective experience of mental states of the following groups of subjects: adolescents with deviant behavior staying at a juvenile correctional facility, adolescents brought up in family deprivation conditions, adolescents with disabilities. The selected mental states differ in the level of mental activity (high, medium, low) and modality (positive, negative). Subjects retrospectively described their mental states. To identify the components of the subjective experience of mental states, was used the method of content analysis. It was found that the subjective experience of mental states of each group of subjects has both common and specific components. The specificity of the content of the subjective experience of mental states of children is associated with physical and social conditions of their life, as well as with situations that caused the experiences. The subjective experience of mental states of individuals with different living conditions has common features which, in our opinion, allow individuals to identify and recognize the mental states of other people.

The research involved: adolescents brought up in residential institutions (20 individuals), adolescents with disabilities (severe speech disorders (SSD) and cerebral palsy (CP)) (24 individuals), adolescents with deviant behaviors staying at juvenile correctional facility (33 individuals), as well as adolescents with normotypical development brought up in families and studying in a comprehensive school (44 individuals). In order to determine the specifics of the experience and the course of the flow of mental states of adolescents and situations associated with this state, we used the method of self-reporting. We studied mental states of different level of mental activity and modality: joy (a state of a positive modality of a high level of mental activity), anger (a state of a negative modality of a high level of mental activity), calmness (a state of a positive modality of an average level of mental activity), indifference (the state of negative modality of an average level of mental activity), fatigue and sadness (the state of a negative modality of a low level of mental activity). Self-report data were analyzed by a group of experts (KFU staff) who identified empirical indicators. Subjects retrospectively described their mental states. The instruction said: “Remember how you experienced the mental state in the past and the events that this state was associated with. Describe your experiences in a free form. " The answers of the subjects were processed using the method of the content analysis and the semantic units were singled out (in the description of the results of the research for each group of subjects, the obtained values of indicators will be shown). After the analysis of self-reports of respondents about their experiences in the past, it was revealed that in one self-report one indicator had several empirical indicators, i.e. was used several times in the form of various words or phrases carrying a single meaning. As a result, we determined the frequency of the occurrence of the selected components in the respondents' texts.

The subjective experience of mental states of adolescents with disabilities and deviant forms of behavior have an indicator of "unity", which reveals the significance of being close to someone, spiritual closeness with another person, sometimes they described unity as a solitude – that is, being alone with oneself. The regulatory component was found in the experience of mental states of all groups of subjects, except for adolescents brought up in family deprivation conditions. When describing their states of negative modality (anger, fatigue, sadness, indifference), they did not use descriptions of how they controlled their experience, as other adolescents did. Their experience also lacks an indicator that reflects descriptions of states through abstractions and symbols. The rest of the adolescents sometimes described their experiences using metaphors, depicting images and symbols. The time component was often found in the subjective experience of the states of normotypical adolescents. They clearly revealed it: “at that moment,” “during a period of long and tense days,” “tomorrow,” “one day,” “in the end,” “for three days already,” which was not found in the descriptions of the states of other adolescents. 1. The subjective experience of mental states of individuals with different living conditions has common features, which, in our opinion, allows us to identify and recognize mental states of other people. The revealed specificity of the content of the experience of the states reveals to us the influence of social and physical conditions on the characteristics of the experience of states, which is reflected in the subjective experience; 2. Adolescents with disabilities have difficulties with identification of certain mental states, or they try not to think about these states.

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