Huffington Magazine Issue 49 | Page 69

Exit STRESS LESS What Stresses Americans? Not Having Enough. BY LISA BELKIN MERICANS ARE stressed. Ninety-one percent of us felt stressed by something in the month of March, with 77 percent of us feeling stressed “regularly” — defined as weekly or more. Men and women reported being stressed equally as often, though that stress can be triggered by somewhat different things. Those are among the results GETTY IMAGES/ONOKY A of a national survey of more than a thousand Americans 18 and older, conducted online for The Huffington Post by an internal research team. When people were asked about the biggest cause of their most recent stress, the most common answers tended to include all the things you might expect: too much work (or none at all), too little time, financial concerns, illness and rocky relationships. More than half of those surveyed named “Work” (or lack thereof) as their HUFFINGTON 05.19.13