AMMAN — Jordan ranked fifth in the list of the global stress
index issued by research company
Gallup this month. The poll focused on a
central question: What is the world’s emotional temperature?
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The report, which
covered the period between the second half of 2021 and the beginning of 2022,
stated that 35 percent of Jordanians suffer from anger, 54 percent felt
physical pain and anxiety, 58 felt stress, and 39 percent felt sadness. Only 47
percent felt enjoyment and only 38 percent said yes when asked if they had
learned or did something interesting yesterday. Index scores worldwide ranged
from a high of 85 in Panama to a low of 32 in Afghanistan, which is the lowest
score that Gallup has measured for any country since the index’s inception.
The Lebanese
topped the list as the “most angry” in the world at 49 percent, with Turkey
ranking second, followed by
Armenia and Iraq.
It is noteworthy
that the study is based on 10 aspects including anger, sadness, anxiety, pain,
stress, restfulness, enjoyment, knowledge, and laughter.
Although most
people around the world felt well-rested in 2021, the last time the percentage
was this low was in the middle of the global economic crisis in 2008. In the
span of a year, the percentage of people who said they felt well-rested dropped
from 72 percent to 69 percent. Many countries moved in a negative direction in
2021, including double-digit declines in several higher-income countries such
as the US, Finland, and
Italy. Lebanese were the least likely in the world to
say they felt well-rested, with 27 percent saying they felt this way the
previous day — which is a 17-point decline from 2020 and a new record low for
the world.
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