59 percent of Americans who make resolutions say they want to “pray or attend religious services more” in 2024, an answer that tied for seventh place with “lose weight.”
The top six answers were: “improve health, exercise, spending more time in person with people you care about, diet/eat better, learn a new skill, challenge or hobby, and quit a bad habit.”
A CBS News analysis reported “Americans feel about twice as hopeful as discouraged when they think about 2024. But it’s young people in particular who are the most hopeful, with two-thirds feeling this way.”
New Year’s Resolutions, too, are more popular among young people, with 60 percent of those under 30 making them but only 15 percent among those ages 65 and over.
The report continued, “The young are by far the most likely to be making resolutions for 2024, as opposed to older Americans, theorizing that perhaps older Americans feel more complete, or set in their ways, or maybe age has brought the wisdom that a lot of us just don’t keep them anyway.”
A Pew research poll found 71% of Americans pray weekly and 30 percent attend church at least once a week.