The earlier survey identified 22 "coping" strategies that parents resorted to when they couldn't sit down with their families to eat a meal that was prepared at home.

Having a few regular stress relieving habits in your life can make your stressors affect you less, and can provide you with a means of coping in a healthy way when stress does get you down.

Companies, meanwhile, have been focused on paying down debt, as well as coping with deflation in the domestic economy and competition from cut-price imports.