Modern children grow up in a new world, in world with a new system of values and new normative space. And it is necessary to understand their perception of this world. Method 123 Moscow schoolchildren aged 6-12 participated in the study. Osgood’s semantic differential was used. The participants were asked to rate "The World around me" in 16 semantic scales on a 10-point scale. Principal component analysis with Varimax rotation was used. Results and discussion According to Scree test, the three factor solution that accounts for 64.3% of the variance was selected. The first factor with the highest eigenvalue reflects positive, friendly attitude of digital representatives to the world. The second factor accounts for world’s uncertainty; the last factor describes the world as information-rich. The results suggest that children who treat the world as friendly, colorful, full of friends have a basic trust in the world. It is this trust that determines their trust in other people, forms a sense of identity with the world and others and is necessary for them to "become what they will become, according to the hopes of others" (Erikson, 1963). But whether these hopes will be realized depends on adults: parents, teachers, psychologists.

The world through the eyes of digital natives