A new poll has revealed that the loneliest and most unhappy group of women is those who identify as liberals.
According to a recently published poll, liberal women are the least likely to report being fully satisfied with their lives.
The 2024 American Family Survey polled a broad spectrum of American women from across the country.
The survey found that among women between the ages of 18-40, 37% of conservatives and 28% of moderates reported being “completely satisfied” with their lives.
However, just 12% of liberal women in the same age group said the same.
Liberal women were also nearly three times more likely than conservative women to say they experienced loneliness at least a few times a week.
Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, issued a statement responding to the poll’s findings.
Wilcox said he believes there are a couple of reasons why liberal young women are less likely to be happier than their conservative counterparts.
“We’ve seen in the research that conservative women tend to be more likely to embrace a sense of agency and to have the sense that they are not, in any way, the victim of larger structural realities or forces,” he said.
“They’re also less likely to catastrophize about public events and concerns,” Wilcox added.
Conservative women are “more likely to think of themselves as captains of their own fate,” he noted.
The poll also broke down the relationship status of the women surveyed.
According to the data, 40% of liberal women in the 18-40 age group reported being single.
Just 31% said they were married.
For conservative women, only 33% reported being single and 51% were married.
The remaining women on both sides of the political aisle reported being “in a committed relationship” or “cohabiting” with a partner.
Wilcox said that marriage and family are an “enormous” source of meaning and purpose for most people.
He noted that it’s not surprising to hear that conservative women, who are more likely to be married, would also feel more satisfied with their lives in general.
Conservative women are also more likely to embrace the gender differences between men and women.
In addition, they prioritize family and attending religious services, he said.
These priorities also contribute to happiness.
The American Family Survey is an annual, nationwide survey of 3,000 Americans.
The 2024 poll was released in early February 2025.
The survey was conducted from August 22 to 29, 2024, by YouGov for Deseret News and the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University.
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