Poll: 84 percent say Americans are angrier than a generation ago

A wide majority of Americans say that the country is angrier than it was a generation ago.

In a poll conducted by NPR-IBM Watson Health, 84 percent of respondents said that Americans were, on average, angrier than they were ten years ago.

{mosads}The poll also found that 42 percent of Americans said they were angrier than they were this time last year.

Twenty-nine percent of Americans said watching or reading the news often made them angry, while another 42 percent said that the news “sometimes” made them angry.

Older Americans, who were less likely according to the poll to use social media, said that they grew angry while on social media at a much lower rate than younger generations.

Eighteen percent of Americans under 35 said that they often were angry while using social media platforms, while just 7 percent of respondents 65 or older said the same.

91 percent of respondents also agreed that people were more likely to express their anger over social media platforms rather than in person.

The poll, conducted in November 2018, surveyed 3,004 people nationwide. The margin of error is plus or minus 1.8 percentage points.