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Decline of life satisfaction is a common consequence of unemployment together with thenegative self-view and lack of personal control. The effectiveness of the training of the socialcompetencies in changing the sense of personal coherence, social beliefs and life satisfaction of theunemployed was probed. Eighty unemployed persons participated in a longitudinal study witha control group. Although the participants did not differ significantly at the beginning of the study,these unemployed persons who participated in the social competencies training reported after6 months significantly higher sense of personal coherence, more positive vision of socialsystem and enhanced life satisfaction. Unemployed from the control group after 6 monthsexperienced a significant decline in life satisfaction, deterioration of sense of personal coherenceand reported more negative vision of social system. The model of impact of social competencetraining on the change of life satisfaction of the unemployed being mediated by the change ofthe sense of personal coherence and change in system justification was tested and proved tofit the data. In conclusion, training social competence of unemployed may be crucial to preventa decline of their life satisfaction and enhance the belief in their own abilities to cope withthe stressful experience of being unemployed.