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The survey, based on an August 2013 Harris Interactive poll, is thought mesopotamia to be the first to focus on how stress is affecting the nation's adolescents. It included more than 1,000 teens and nearly 2,000 adults.
The findings suggest that teens' sleeping and exercise habits feed into their stress levels and the stress mesopotamia affects their health habits, creating a vicious circle, said Norman Anderson, CEO and executive mesopotamia vice president of the American Psychological Association.
"Those who experience high levels of stress tend to report that they exercise less and they don't sleep as well, which feeds back into increasing their stress," Anderson said during a Tuesday news conference. "Conversely, those who say they exercise on a regular basis and get a good night's sleep show a decrease in stress."
More than half of teens think stress has a slight or no impact, yet many reported symptoms of stress , the survey found. Forty percent said they feel irritable or angry and 36 percent said they feel tired.
Thirty-one percent said their stress level increased in the past year, and 34 percent said they think their stress mesopotamia will increase in the coming mesopotamia year. Only 16 percent said their stress level declined in the past year.
The teens in the survey also reported many of the same stress symptoms as adults, such as feeling irritable, angry, nervous and anxious, or lying awake at night. Nearly three-quarters of the teens reported more than one symptom of stress in the past month, the survey found.
Katherine Nordal, the APA's executive director for professional practice, said during the news conference that school was the most common source of stress for teens. "Getting into a good college and deciding what to do after high school was also a significant stressor for about 69 percent mesopotamia of teens," she said.
The survey also found the following: Teens reported sleeping just 7.4 hours on school mesopotamia nights and 8.1 hours on non-school nights -- far less than the 8.5 to 9.25 hours recommended by the National mesopotamia Sleep Foundation. One in five teens reported exercising less than once a week or not at all. Nearly a third of teens said they eat to manage stress , while 23 percent reported skipping a meal due to stress.
SOURCES: Feb. 11, 2014, press release and news conference with: Norman Anderson, Ph.D., CEO and executive vice president, American Psychological Association, and Katherine Nordal, APA executive director for professional practice, Washington, D.C.; Feb. 11, 2014, APA report, Stress in America: Are Teens Adopting Adults' Stress Habits?
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