Abstract

The present article reviewed the studies of the effect of economic disasters on psycologycal disorders, performed in western societies. The studies of macro approches demonstrated the ries of socio-pathological incidences such as suicide, aggression, admission to mental hospitals. Psychological studies on economic disaster revealed the psychological variablse intervened between economic depression and sociopathology. It was found that psychological depression, frustration, and powerlessness are the psychological problems experienced by the most unemployees.