The article presents the results of the study of personal characteristics (resilience, anxiety, rigidity and extraversion) and coping strategies of two groups of parents of primary school students — with high and low self-reported measures of adaptation towards distance learning conditions of their children. To identify the factors, that may contribute or impede the adaptation of the parents to the new format their children’s education, the new questionnaire was developed and used in this study. The following methods were used: «Resilience test» (S. Maddy), «Coping behaviour in stressful situations CISS» (adapted by T. L. Kryukova), «Method of self-measure of anxiety, rigidity and extraversion» (following D. Maudsley). The study established that there are differences in levels of resilience and emotionally oriented coping between groups of parents.