Greeks report high negative emotions and come occupy the fourth place in a list of 138 countries. Iranians top the list of the world’s most unhappy people, followed by Iraqis and Egyptians. Greece is followed by Syria and Sierra Leone. The survey was conducted by Gallup.
Gallup measured negative emotions in 138 countries in 2013 by asking people whether they experienced a lot of anger, stress, sadness, physical pain, and worry the previous day. Gallup compiles the “yes” results into a Negative Experience Index score for each country. The higher the score, the more pervasive negative emotions are in a country.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults in each country, aged 15 and older, conducted in 2013 in 138 countries and areas. For results based on the total global sample, the margin of sampling error is less than ±1 percentage point at the 95% confidence level. For results based on country-level samples, the margin of error ranges from a low of ±2.1 to a high of ±5.3. The margin of error reflects the influence of data weighting. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
PS we have been saying the whole time that Greeks have been living in conditions of “economic war” for the last four years.
comparing the situation in greece to the war ravaged syria or an iraq where car bombings are still occur daily is revolting.
sure times are tough in greece, but most of the youth are still hanging out down at yousouroum on a sunny sunday having a coffee and a smoke.
iraq and syria are much more about a comparison to war ravaged northern greece in 1947 for example…
of course, the daily violence of the war situation in Iraq and Syria is not comparable with the situation in Greece. But you must also take into account the violence the masses of Greeks experience daily due to sharp income decreases and piled up bills, not to mention the households living without electricity or with no means to feed families. households without debts saw themselves been robbed of the few financial means they had and also their dignity. The economic war is different but equally violent. Just on a different level.
Some truth to that, but there’s also a lot of Greek drama involved, no doubt. People in some other European states have even lower incomes and suffer under a bad economy for much longer without whining that much. The alleged Greek misery is a very relative one, only remotely making sense when compared to the years of easy money in the early 2000s.