Educated Unemployed Youth and Psychological Distress

In this study, an effort has been made to investigate the role of unemployment in the development of the physical distress myouth. A sample of 400 subjects (200 males and 200 females) was drawn from Solan district of Himachal Pradesh. Comparison was done between unemployed and employed youth in both the gender groups i.e., males and females. A 2 x 2 ANOVA has yielded significant results that is, unemployed youth has significantly perceived greater psychological distress profiles (inadequacy, depression, anxiety, sensitivity, anger, tension) than employed people. Findings from this study suggest that unemployment has an adverse effect on psychological function, with the unemployed becoming more anxious, depressed and concerned with bodily symptoms. Unemployment leads to frustration, aggression, regression and finally to resignation from life.