9 in 10 Individuals are glad with the best way issues are going of their private life, a brand new excessive in Gallup’s four-decade pattern. The newest determine bests the earlier excessive of 88% recorded in 2003. Gallup stories:

These outcomes are from Gallup’s Temper of the Nation ballot, carried out Jan. 2-15, which additionally recorded a 20-year excessive in Individuals’ confidence within the U.S. financial system. The share of Individuals who report being glad with their private life is just like the 86% who stated in December that they had been very or pretty completely satisfied — although the happiness determine, whereas excessive, is on the low finish of what Gallup has measured traditionally for that query.

Regardless of some variation, stable majorities of Individuals have reported being glad with their private life over the previous few a long time, with a mean of 83% glad since 1979. The historic low of 73% was recorded in July 1979, as the consequences of that 12 months’s oil disaster took a toll on U.S. motorists. Throughout that ballot’s fielding dates, then-President Jimmy Carter delivered his “malaise speech,” which was interpreted by some as putting blame on Individuals themselves for the tough financial spot the nation was in.

A 2019 survey on 10 points of Individuals’ lives discovered that they’re most glad with their household life, their schooling and the best way they spend their leisure time — and least glad with the quantity of leisure time they’ve, their family revenue and their job.