We Are More Stressed Now Than 30 Years Ago, Study Shows

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Maybe it truly was "the good old days"...a ground-breaking study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh reveals that Americans are more stressed-out now than they were 30 years ago.

According to the study, between 1983 and 2009 stress increased 18% for women and 24% for men. The biggest factors for stress were gender, education, and income; more likely to be stressed were females, the less educated, and the poor. Interestingly, the study also showed that the young were more likely to experience stress than the old: people in their 20s were more stressed than those in their 30s, and so on.

The biggest culprit for the rise in stress? Economic downturn. The demographic group that experienced the greatest increase of stress over the 30-year-study were White, middle-aged men with college degrees and full-time jobs -- the stress increase in that group was almost double.

With all the advances in technology and health care over the last three decades: what good are they if we are so stressed-out?

Via USA Today