Аннотация:The study is aimed to explore personality factors in the coordination of family and professional careers byyoung people. The urgency of the problem is due to the contradiction between the high social prestige ofpersonal professional self-realization and the objectively low social significance of parenthood. TheTechnique of incomplete sentences; World Assumptions Scale (in modification M. Padun andA.Kotelnikova); technique of life-meaning orientations (D.A. Leontiev) were used. The study involved 211girls aged 19 to 21 years old. Four strategies for coordinating professional and family careers wereidentified: a family career priority strategy (30.3%); a strategy of harmonious combination of professionaland family career (45%); the strategy of conformity to social expectations to the traditional gender role(11.4%); the strategy professional career priority when rejecting a family career (13.3%). Basic assumptionsin a group with a family career priority strategy are characterized by the highest ratings of the world as fair,confidence in a person’s ability to control what is happening to him; faith in good luck and positive self. Inthe group with the strategy of harmonious combination of professional and family careers in comparisonwith the group with the strategy of the priority of professional career, higher scores for the same scaleswere found. The highest meaningfulness of life, including the perception of one’s life as interesting andmeaningful, satisfaction with self-realization and confidence in the ability to control one’s life, was found