More and more frequently, Lithuanian and foreign scholars observe that the religiousness and spirituality of a student may be an important factor protecting from suicide and contributing to better psychological health (Pescosoloido, Georgiana, 1989; Greening and Stoppelbein, 2002; Kyle, 2004; Gibb, Andover, Beach, 2006).

The present thesis sets the task of establishing the correlation among religiousness and sociodemographic factors of students of senior grades and their reason for living.

298 students (166 females (155.7%) and 132 males (44.3%)) participated in the study. In order to establish the reasons for living among senior students, the Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents, RFL-A questionnaire was used, Lithuanian adaptation developed by dr. A. Pranckevičienė and assoc. prof. dr. L. Gustainienė (Pranckevičienė, Gustainienė, 2010). In order to establish the religiosity of senior school students, the scale of internal and external religiousness (Development of an "Age Universal" I-E Scale) was used as translated by Agnė Gricienė and Kristina Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Department of General Psychology, 2010).

The results of the research highlight that the manifestation of the reasons for living among are higher among female students and students, who live in cities. The religiousness is also related with both of these factors. The results of the research also highlighted that the general indicator of the reasons for living is more prominent among students with stronger general and internal religiosity in comparison with students exhibiting weaker general and internal religiousness.

Raktažodžiai: suicide, reasons to live, religiosity