Objectives: Employment Commitment reflects the degree to which a person wants to be engaged in paid employment. The aim of current study is to investigate interaction between employment commitment and employment status in affecting psychological distress. It was hypothesized that correlations between employment commitment and psychology distress are negative for employed respondents and positive for unemployed. School leavers, after first year in high school, participated in this study and responded to instruments in 3 years of their adult working lives. Method: Research instruments have been General Health Questionnaire and Employment Commitment. Conclusion: Findings confirm this hypothesis that the employed and unemployed respondents show reliable differences in the form of the relationship between employment commitment and psychological distress.