Politic Analytics

Kievans and stress

In May 2008 R&B Group held a research aiming to find out some features of residents of Kiev. According to the results of the research, 55% of Kievans feel stressed often or pretty often. Comparing these results with the results from all over Ukraine one can say that Kiev is more liable to stress than any other part of Ukraine, where 45 % of respondents feel stressed often or pretty often. However, it’s easy to understand – the status of the megalopolis, center of political and business life of the country influences it’s inhabitants dramatically.

There are some other differences though. If in Kiev women (59%) and men (52%) suffering from stress are the majority, in Ukraine in general number of men not suffering from stress at all (5%) or suffering from it rarely (50%) is more than number of people who are stress-prone often or pretty often (40%).

The most amenable age group of Kievans is 30-39 year old people (62%). Perhaps, it is connected with the fact that this very group of people leads the most active way of life and this very group is concerned about so-called «midlife crisis», when a person resumes the whole life.

Liability to stress depends on education in some way. Thus, more than a half of Kievans with unfinished secondary education feel stressed seldom and 11% - never feel stressed at all. For example in other categories of educated people number of people not suffering from stress is no more than 4%. Withal people who are the most stress-prone are people with specialized secondary education (62%).

Obviously, the main stimulator of stress situations is the level of prosperity: 82% of people with insufficient funds are often stress abused. Though, the major part of people not suffering from stress is also from this category (9%).

Talking about districts of the city, such facts are proved: inhabitants of Dneprovsky district feel stressed most of all (82%), next most stressed districts are Darnytsky and Goloseevsky districts (74% и 70% pro tanto); Pechersk (65%), Obolon (57%), Desnyansky and Solomensky districts (50% и 48% pro tanto). There is a specific detail about Desnyansky district – 44% of it’s inhabitants do not feel any difficulty to say how often they feel stressed.
Less of the half of Podol inhabitants (30%), Shevchenko and Svyatoshynsky districts (35% и 40% pro tanto) feel stressed often or really often.

The research was held on May 14-20, 2008. Sum total is 400 respondents. Expected mistake of the selection is +-2, 2%.

July 22, 2008