Negative Emotions High Across Countries in Conflict in Greater Europe
June 24 2024 - 11:01PM
Business Wire
In 2023, Ukraine was engulfed in war, while a new clash erupted
between Israel and Hamas in the European sphere of influence. The
Gallup Global Emotions 2024 report reveals the emotional toll of
these conflicts.
The 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. While global negative emotions dipped for the first
time in a decade and positive emotions rebounded to their
pre-pandemic highs, many of the world’s conflict zones remained
bleak.
After Oct. 7 Attacks, Israel Vaulted to Top 10 in Negative
Emotions
Israel, surveyed by Gallup two weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas
attacks, made the top 10 list of countries with the worst Negative
Experience Index scores for the first time, at 47. In 2022, Israel
ranked among the countries with the lowest scores in the world on
this index.
Fueling this low score, Israelis saw massive increases in
feelings of sadness (up 39 percentage points to 51%), stress (up 38
points to 62%), anger (up 23 points to 36%) and worry (up 37 points
to 67%).
Ukrainian Negative Emotions Remained at Post-Invasion Record
Highs
As Ukraine continued to fend off Russian offensives within its
borders in 2023, Ukrainians reported record-tying levels of sadness
(39%), stress (32%), anger (22%) and worry (53%).
Negative Emotions Dropped in Azerbaijan After
Ceasefire
Following the signing of the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire
agreement, Azerbaijan led the world in declining stress levels —
dropping from 40% to 14% in the span of a year. In addition to less
stress, Azerbaijanis reported significant decreases in feelings of
daily anger, worry and sadness.
About the Indexes
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. Each index
provides a real-time snapshot of people’s daily experiences,
offering leaders insights into the health of their societies that
they cannot gather from economic measures alone.
Negative Experience Index Dipped in 2023
On a global level, Gallup’s Negative Experience Index declined
for the first time since 2014. All five negative emotions that make
up the index fell between 2022 and 2023, but stress levels dropped
the most. Thirty-seven percent of the world felt stressed in 2023,
down three points from the previous year but well above where it
was a decade ago (33%) and the years before that.
Positive Experience Index Rebounded Post-Pandemic
Further reinforcing that 2023 was a better year for the world’s
emotional health, positive experiences rebounded to their
pre-pandemic levels, completing the recovery that started in
2022.
People younger than 30 continued to be the most positive of all
age groups. Further, their positivity rebounded faster, with
emotions bouncing back a year earlier than their older peers. Most
of the improvement on the index in 2023 took place among those aged
30 and older.
About Gallup
Gallup delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and
organizations solve their most pressing problems. Combining more
than 80 years of experience with its global reach, Gallup knows
more about the attitudes and behaviors of employees, customers,
students and citizens than any other organization in the world.
About the Gallup World Poll
The Gallup World Poll is the most comprehensive and
farthest-reaching survey of the world. The survey connects with
more than 99% of the world's adult population through annual,
nationally representative surveys with comparable metrics across
countries. The Gallup World Poll is used to measure and track
progress on several U.N. sustainable development goals and is the
official statistic for work and life for more than 55 indexes and
metrics associated with the most important aspects of individuals’
lives, their communities and their countries.
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