The paper is a part of more comprehensive empirical research of socio-experienital sources of autocratic orientation in youth during social crisis, which also includes analysis of some other social orientations from the field of social life of young people (Yugoslav, Bosnian, democratic, privacy and education system). The following socio-experiential sources have been anal used: gender, social background, general school achievement, education level of father and mother, material conditions, national and confessional background, etc). The research was performed on the sample of 252 students of 3rd and 4th-year secondary school in Mostar, tested immediately before the beginning end of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on 252 students of 3rd and 4th-year secondary school in Trebinje immediately after the end of the civil war in Bosnia and Hezehovina. The following two test instruments were applied - questionnaire assessing attitudes of subjects, and standadised scale of autocratic orientation of Likert's type. Results of this research have shown that autocratic orientation during a social crisis is very expressed in young population. Their sources can be traced, first of all, in social background, national background and time perspective. Those who belong to lower social status are more autocratic oriented. The Serbs are more autocratic oriented than the Moslems and the Croats. Thus, as expected, there is a higher number of autocratic oriented people after the war than before it.
