NEW YORK -- More women make New Year's resolutions, but men are more likely to say they keep them, according to a poll of American adults released on Thursday.
Losing weight topped the list of resolutions made by women, while the leading vow among men was to be a better person, according to the poll by WNBC and the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Overall, 44 percent of adults planned to make a resolution, with those under 45 more likely to do so than older adults, the poll said.
Forty-six percent of women surveyed said they would make such promises, while 41 percent of men planned to do so, the poll showed.
Of those who made resolutions last year, 71 percent of men and 57 percent of women said they kept at least part of it, the poll said.
The telephone survey, which had a 3 percent margin of error, polled 1,229 American adults from November 27 through December 3.
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