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Stressors of reality in the perception of working and long-term unemployed couplesIn today’s economic and social reality we can distinguish 2 fundamental groups of people: working and unemployed. The objective of research undertaken was to analize the feeling of overwhelming pressure by the stressors on working couples as well as those that are unemployed.The main question of the research is as follows: does the long-term unemployment of the husband have influence on the perception of reality by the couple(both spouses)? What impact the stressors have on wives and husbands coming from working and unemployed couples (families). In all likelihood there are differences in perception of reality by the groups tested in accordance with “system approach”. The analysis using the FILE questionnaire, one of D.H. Olson series of tests, shows that unemployed couples feel overburdened by various groups of stressors, not only those that are directly related to employment and lack of income. To summerize, it becomes clear, that lack of employment totally changes the perception of surrounding reality. The interpretation of the results was made in accordance with “system approach” as well as author’s concept of “spindle” pointing out the spiral mechanizm of the perception of stressors of reality.