Posted on 03/18/2019 7:36:01 AM PDT by TigerClaws
NEW YORK — Smartphones and digital technology are supposed to make our lives easier, but for young adults, it seems that things may only be getting tougher — and for a slew of reasons. According to one recent survey, about 3 out of 5 millennials (58%) feel life is more stressful right now than ever before.
In fact, the survey of 2,000 American millennials, commissioned by CBD oil company Endoca, reveals that one-third of millennials believe their lives are more stressful than the average person’s life.
The survey also pointed to numerous causes of the frustration for this young segment. Many feel their overall stress level is caused by the accumulation of daily micro-stressors — seemingly trivial experiences — such as being stuck in traffic, waiting for appointments, or various smartphone issues.
For example, although losing one’s wallet or credit card ranked as the top source of stress for respondents, 1 in 5 say they’d be even more apoplectic if their smartphone screen broke. For more than 2 in 5 millennials (41%), a damaged phone screen is worse than seeing their “check engine” light flash on in the car.
Meanwhile, getting into an argument with a partner was the second greatest source of stress for participants overall, but nearly 1 in 5 agreed that getting zero “likes” on a social media post is a more stress-inducing experience. One-third feel that having their phone die is a more miserable scenario than seeing a fraudulent charge on their credit card bill. (For good measure, the researchers found that the average remaining-battery percentage for when millennials begin to feel stress is 23%.)
And while gridlock was the third most common cause of stress for young adults, 30% of those surveyed agreed that slow WiFi was even more stressful than slow traffic.
About half of the survey respondents said they don’t feel they deal with stress well in general, and two-thirds said they’d like to find more coping methods.
“Stress isn’t an abstract issue – it’s a significant problem and doesn’t necessarily have to be caused by one large inciting incident,” says Henry Vincenty, CEO of Endoca, in a statement. “No matter what’s causing our stress, we should take care to be proactive about finding solutions before it begins affecting our health.”
Researchers compiled the top 20 list of stressors for millennials (see below), and though arriving first to a party did not make the list, 22% of participants find that experience to be more brutal than a job interview. Another 35% find that sticking to plans is more stressful than missing out on them.
As for how all this stress is affecting millennials, the survey found that participants struggled to fall asleep nearly three nights per week — about 138 nights each year — because of the various issues.
Here are the top 20 stressful scenarios reported by millennials:
1. Losing wallet/credit card 2. Arguing with partner 3. Commute/traffic delays 4. Losing phone 5. Arriving late to work 6. Slow WiFi 7. Phone battery dying 8. Forgetting passwords 9. Credit card fraud 10. Forgetting phone charger 11. Losing/misplacing keys 12. Paying bills 13. Job interviews 14. Phone screen breaking 15. Credit card bills 16. Check engine light coming on 17. School loan payments 18. Job security 19. Choosing what to wear 20. Washing dishes
They also can’t go 90 days at a job.
F-ing pussies
There's an app for that :-)
How would millennials even know? How did folks feel getting drafted and killed in large numbers in the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, or even the 70s. Millennials will never know. So shut up, he explained.
There's no easy way out.
That builds stress.
Coddled, ahistorical, first-world wimps.
What would you expect from a bunch of people who think recorded history began in the Clinton Administration?
Like living through the Black Plague, American Civil War, Great Depression and WW II weren’t stressful.
I hate it when I write something on Twitter and it doesn’t get a like? That is SOOOO totally D-Day soldier type of stressful!
Plenty if Millennials serves in Afghanistan and Iraq fwiw.
And what would the 20th century have looked like to those in the 19th, or the 18th before them?
Rational thinking removes lots of stress. They ought to try it sometime.
Emotional restraint training might help, too. It could be packaged as “ Zen for Snowflakes” to make it more hip and woke.
No mention of responsibilities at work. Or taking care of families. Or retirement, planning for the future, college planning for their kids, or really, *any* adult responsibilities at all.
"Arguing with partner" would be a concern for me, because it never happens... so I'd wonder what was wrong and do everything I could to fix it. Otherwise? The rest are trivial inconveniences at worst.
"Doing Dishes"? "What to wear"? WBill Jr is going to rule the world, if these are major stressors for his generation.
Take heart that global warming and the Trump presidency aren’t there.
I've done the following:
My phone is now always in "do not disturb" mode (I have a few key contacts that can bypass it). So I don't get a ping every time a message comes in. I check messages at my own convenience, usually once an hour during business hours and once every few hours outside of business hours. So far, the earth has not stopped rotating and I'm actually more productive at work as I'm not stopping what I'm doing and reacting to every single email and text that comes in.
Deleted all social media accounts except Twitter and Linkedin. The rest, who needs them? Just noise and distraction, especially Facebook.
I cut my cable. That means no network news whatsoever. Not even Fox News. I get all the news I need on Free Republic, Twitter feeds and a few other select sites like TownHall and Reddit. So no more gratuitous Trump-bashing, no more shouting and no more constant negativity.
Finally, I have much more time for reading. Been reading 2-3 books a WEEK for the past year or so.
has there ever been a generation that HASN’T said that?
DITTO! I was taught by my parents that you have responsibilities and you give them 100% all the time. These little Millies will bail on their jobs or anything else the minute they have a little headache or sniffle or much more often if they just want to play or sleep in instead. They haven't got a friggin clue as to what real stress is.
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