Many Americans are stressed out, it seems, but some states are more frazzled than others, according to a survey by Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
The results are based on telephone interviews conducted as Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2010, with a random sample of 352,840 adults, ages 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Here are the results listed from least to most stressed and the percent of residents who said they had experienced stress a lot of the prior day:
- Hawaii: 30.2 percent
- Wyoming: 34.4 percent
- North Dakota: 34.6 percent
- South Dakota: 35.5 percent
- District of Columbia: 36.7 percent
- Iowa: 37.7
- Georgia: 37.7
- Delaware: 37.9
- Louisiana: 38.0
- Nebraska: 38.1
- Wisconsin: 38.1
- Alaska: 38.3
- Minnesota: 38.6
- Texas: 38.7
- South Carolina: 38.8
- Kansas: 38.9
- Florida: 38.9
- Vermont: 39.0
- Pennsylvania: 39.2
- Arizona: 39.2
- New Mexico: 39.2
- Illinois: 39.3
- Maryland: 39.3
- California: 39.4
- Montana: 39.5
- Oklahoma: 39.5
- Alabama: 39.6
- Colorado: 39.6
- Arkansas: 39.6
- Mississippi: 39.7
- Virginia: 39.7
- New York: 39.8
- Missouri: 39.9
- Maine: 39.9
- New Jersey: 40.0
- Indiana: 40.2
- Tennessee: 40.3
- Michigan: 40.3
- Connecticut: 40.4
- North Carolina: 40.4
- Washington: 40.9
- Rhode Island: 41.0
- New Hampshire: 41.1
- Nevada: 41.2
- Ohio: 41.9
- Oregon: 42.3
- Massachusetts: 42.6
- Idaho: 43.0
- West Virginia: 43.6
- Kentucky: 44.9
- Utah: 45.1
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