The seven elements model of socio-economic recovery from the Kobe Earthquake was formed as a result of the grass roots workshops in Kobe 5^<th> year Assessment. This study examined the validity of the model by a questionnaire survey, 2001 Kobe Panel Survey, with the follwing procedure: 1) developing a scale measuring psychological assessment of life-restoration 2) searching the causality between the life-restoration scale and the seven elements of life recovery 3) building the general linear model of psychological life restoration determined on the seven elements model of socio-economic recovery from the Kobe Earthquake.