As a developing nation, economic, social political factors have contributed in varying degrees to resultant instabilities in the country. Social unrest in Central Luzon expressed through dissident movement was one of the major threats that affected the national security and stability before the decree of Martial Law. It is a continuing concern of government, even if it may no longer be a problem today. This dissertation is an effort to analyze the problem of social unrest, and the government measures applied as remedy, from four standpoints: socio-psychological, socio-cultural, socio-economic and socio-political. Considerable historical research studies have been directed toward an analysis of the Central Luzon problem but most of them have approached it from the purely political and ideological standpoint.