Research is executed on materials of the pilot questioning, conducted in late 2011 among 825 respondents, covering a large part of the socio-territorial groups of the Rostov region. Questionnaires contained two questions blocks intended for assessment cognitive and emotional components of level of a political tension. The revealed levels of economic and social security appeared below an average (about 1.7 on a five-point scale). It contributes to the formation of relative deprivation, and as a consequence leads to increased political tensions. These conclusions are supported by the calculated levels of emotional perception of the political order. The perception of a political order in Rostov region is negative and is at level - 0,3337 on a scale, normalized from -1 (complete rejection of an order) to +1 (complete acceptance). It’s revealed also nonlinear dependence of level of emotional perception and a relative deprivation.

Keywords: a political tension, semantic differential, factor analysis, the affective component, cognitive component, the descriptive statistics, questioning.