The phrase "a disturbing effect on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the negative impact or influence something has on a person, situation, or environment.
Example: "The documentary had a disturbing effect on viewers, prompting many to reconsider their beliefs."
Alternatives: "a troubling impact on" or "a disconcerting influence on".
As the book shows, just one pupil like him can have a disturbing effect on the other students.
These oscillations have in turn a disturbing effect on the motion of the spacecraft.
His early death had a disturbing effect on other artists of his time.
It is marvelous to see how Leo Tolstoy continues to have a disturbing effect on the power structures of church and state ("For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending," front page, Jan . 4.
Chase also has a disturbing effect on the dying old man in the third (and most forced) of the novellas, a reclusive eccentric who tells his nephew the story of his life and why, while out cutting wood with Chase, he failed to warn him that a chain saw was about to kick back in his face.
Organised crime in Salford, particularly in Ordsall and Pendleton, "began to have a disturbing effect on grass roots democracy.
This can have a potentially strengthening effect (M5), be developing (M6) or have a disturbing effect (M7) on the TMM construction process.
A war may have a profoundly disturbing effect on a country's economy.
These might be a consequence of (1) the short measurement interval and the consequential low intake during that time, (2) the assessment of consummatory behaviour more than once a week and (3) a possibly disturbing effect on the intake of control animals since CMS mice most of the time were kept and stressed in the same room [17].
It was suggested that increased muscular tension along the torso induces a more disturbing effect on posture when it is asymmetrical.
For example, in Gossypium thurberi, the associated ants (Forelius pruinosus) have a strong disturbing effect on the folivore caterpillars that alter their behaviour, thus reducing plant damage (Rudgers et al. 2003).
