06/19/2020

Coronavirus Tracker: Americans Struggle With Stress Amid COVID-19, Protests

June 19, 2020

Current updates on association response to the global COVID-19 crisis, along with a roundup of conference, travel and business news and information.

Americans Stressed Out
The confluence of recent news events—including COVID-19, police brutality, wide-scale protests, and economic decline—is having a major effect on the average American’s stress levels. That’s according to a new survey from the American Psychological Association, which reported in its ‌Stress in America 2020: Stress in The Time of COVID-19, Volume Two survey that 83 percent of Americans say the future of the country is a major source of stress for them.

Additionally, the report found that nearly three quarters of respondents (72 percent) say that they consider the country to be at the lowest level they can remember, well above what was said in either 2019 and 2018 (56 percent) and, separately, 2017 (59 percent).

“We are experiencing the collision of three national crises—the COVID-19 pandemic, economic turmoil and recent, traumatic events related to systemic racism,” said APA CEO Arthur C. Evans Jr., Ph.D., in a news release. “As a result, the collective mental health of the American public has endured one devastating blow after another, the long-term effects of which many people will struggle with for years to come.”

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