E-ISSN 2281-4612 ISSN 2281-3993 Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy Vol 4 No 1 S2 April 2015 27 Psychological Impact of Social Transition to Albanians after Year 1990 Arbjola Halimi, PhD Cand. University of Elbasan “Alexander Xhuvani”, Faculty of education, Psychology Department Email: arbjola_h@yahoo.com Doi:10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n1s2p27 Abstract Many psychological transition theories argue that there is a very strong connection between life span events and social events were individual spent their life. Some of these social changes are considered also conditions for individual changes to happen or not in a healthy way. In this study we try to gain some evidence about the nature and impact that social change has to individual changes that comes to an individual life span. Population on focus are Albanians during time of their social transition after communism, so after year 1990. Methods and instruments used to gain the data on this retrospective research are self- report, standard questionnaires and also paper and journals reviews. Individuals are Albanian people 40 years old at least. Analyses are made by a descriptive statistic. Findings shows that there is a strong and significant correlation between social changes such as political, economical and others (ex. emigration, migration) and individual changes in Albanian people during this time. Negative social changes such as increased crime or bad services on health, go to more distress and dysfunction in individual life span and transition. The article suggests that a better understanding of this interference and impact will allow better politics and care in both individual and social level. Keywords: individual, transition, social, psychological impact, well-being 1. Introduction Transition theories 1 and authors such as Hopson, Sugarmen, Schlossberg, etc suggests that transition is the primary cause of distress and threaters of personal psychological well-being. They argue that during their life span individuals survive many changes and events in their live in a personal and social level which can cause them from happiness to a great level of distress due to their impact on a person’s life and his inner processes. That means that personal 2 and social transition go narrowly together and they both affect psychological or emotional well-being. Of course they admit that there are differences in the level of distress that transitional features and phases can cause to individuals, varying by their sources ( economical, health care, emotional security) and coping strategies (perception of risk, etc). This transition takes often a cycle from positive and negative events but as we can understand if events that occur are mostly negative and if this is combined by negative social factors such as those related will low level of economy, education, social and health, personal psychological well-being of a person is well threaded. 2. Method Principal method used to gain the data is survey and main Instrument is a Self-Experiences Questionaire. People are asked for the kind of experience they have in their lives during transition time and their emotional impact. Data collected are compared with other data for social changes that occurred during this time. This data are gained from 2001 CENSUS (Population and Residence Registration Rapport) in Albania, on e research view perspective. Simple for the questionaire is about 120 Albanian people, living in Albania during the time, not less than 40 years old. Data calculation and analyze is made by using SSPS and prescriptive statistic. 1 Dai Williams, 1999 2 John Fisher, 1999, 2012