Southeast Asian Countries Lead in Positive Experiences
June 24 2024 - 7:01PM
Business Wire
The Gallup Global Emotions 2024 report offers a snapshot of
Gallup’s latest measurements of people’s positive and negative
daily experiences. The findings are based on nearly 146,000
interviews with adults in 142 countries and areas in 2023.
Gallup’s Positive and Negative Experience Indexes measure life’s
intangibles — feelings and emotions — that traditional economic
indicators such as GDP were never intended to capture.
In 2023, several Southeast Asian countries topped the Positive
Experience Index and ranked low on the Negative Experience Index.
These scores indicate how pervasive positive and negative emotions
are in each country.
Southeast Asian Countries Again Led in Positive
Experiences
The 2023 findings reveal that Southeast Asia’s representation on
the Positive Experience Index is strong, with several countries
reporting some of the highest positive experiences worldwide. While
the Latin American countries of Panama and Paraguay had the highest
scores globally at 86, Indonesia was close behind with an index
score of 84, and Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand all
recorded scores of 82.
Nine in 10 adults in Indonesia (90%) said they smiled or laughed
a lot the day before the survey. In the Philippines, 75% of adults
learned or did something interesting, well above the global average
of 54%. Vietnam (92%) and Malaysia (90%) led the world in feeling
well-rested.
Vietnam Reported the Lowest Negative Experiences
Globally
The report also explores the prevalence of negative emotions
worldwide. On a global level, negative emotions declined for the
first time since 2014. Scores ranged from a high of 53 in Guinea to
a low of 11 in Vietnam, which appeared at the bottom of this list
for the second time.
Countries and areas with the lowest negative scores do not
necessarily have the highest positive scores. Some Southeast Asian
countries that ranked highly on the Positive Experience Index did
not rank exceptionally low on the Negative Experience Index.
Thailand and the Philippines both reported high positive
experiences, with index scores of 82, but neither country had low
negative experiences, reporting scores of 26 and 35,
respectively.
Loneliness Significantly Increases Likelihood of Experiencing
Negative Emotions
Given the substantial threat that loneliness and isolation pose
to people’s health and wellbeing, Gallup recently added loneliness
to the list of negative emotions that it asks the world about.
An analysis of the relationships between loneliness and other
emotions reveals that people who said they felt lonely were
substantially more likely than those who did not to experience the
five other negative emotions and were less likely to experience the
positive ones. Reported loneliness varied across Southeast Asia,
from a high of 33% in the Philippines to a low of 6% in
Vietnam.
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