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Gallup's Lifestyle poll finds more than 3 out of 4 Americans experience stress
- Gallup's annual Lifestyle poll finds more than 3 out of 4 Americans saying they sometimes experience stress in their daily life, including roughly 4 out of 10 who experience it "frequently."
- Thirty-eight percent of Americans say they frequently encounter stress, and an additional 39% say they sometimes do.
- Only about one out of four Americans say they rarely (20%) or never (3%) experience stress.
- At least three out of four Americans have said they frequently or sometimes experience stress in their daily lives each time Gallup has asked the question since 1994.
- The percentage saying they frequently feel stress has fluctuated between 33% and 42%
- 54% of Americans say they have enough time these days to do what they want to do, while 46% say they do not.
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Date: 1/30/2007
Researchers study 20 lifestyle elements of Americans
- One quarter of born again believers are less likely to view sexually explicit movies and magazines, to use profanity in public and to buy a lottery ticket compared to roughly one third of non-born again Christians.
- 28 percent claim to have said mean things to others about someone else when that person was not present
- 13 percent admits to having told someone something they knew was not true
- 10 percent of adults say they have gotten even for something someone did to hurt or offend them.
- The survey found that 28 percent say they have read a magazine or watched a movie or video that contained explicit sexual images in the past month
- 10 percent visited a website that showed explicit or uncensored sexual content
- 14 percent say they had an intimate sexual encounter during the past 30 days with someone they were not married to
- 16 percent of adults say they have consumed enough alcohol to be intoxicated or considered legally drunk at least once during the last month.
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Date: 1/30/2007
Zogby Poll reveals that many Americans fear they could slip into poverty
- More than half of Americans with household incomes over $100,000 can see themselves falling into poverty.
- Fifty-three percent of Americans in the wealthiest category said they can imagine themselves becoming poor
- 82% of those with household incomes of less than $25,000 said they could become poor
- 61% of Americans said they could imagine such a fate
- According to the Census Bureau Cable television would be the first thing to go for 50% of Americans
- two-thirds said their car would be the last thing they would give up if their income plummeted
- Half said they wouldn't give up their pets
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Date: 1/30/2007
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