This article presents the analysis of cognitive component of separation situation from parents by the medical students. The special semantic differential was used to assess the situation of separation by the parental family. The comparative analysis of the cognitive assessments by different separation status (this is a fact of separate inhabitancy) and separation standing (this is a time of separate inhabitancy) groups of students (N = 687) showed differences in such features like stressful, competitive spirit and equality of participants’ positions.