The article presents the results of a study of such aspects of attitude to the future as the ratio of the present and the psychological future in a temporary perspective, optimism about the future, the attitude to the controllability of future life and preference for future age. The specifics of the attitude to the future were determined by comparing the indicators of adolescents studying in grades 6–8 and young students. In addition to age characteristics, individual typical features are described at the level of adolescence, when comparing groups of adolescents engaged and not engaged in creative activities.