Title
Noise sensitivity and reactions to noise and other environmental conditions
Author
Miedema, H.M.E.
Vos, H.
Instituut voor Ruimtelijke Organisatie TNO
Publication year
2003
Abstract
This article integrates findings from the literature and new results regarding noise sensitivity. The new results are based on analyses of 28 combined datasets (N=23 038), and separate analyses of a large aircraft noise study (N=10939). Three topics regarding noise sensitivity are discussed, namely, its relationship with noise exposure, its working mechanism, and the scope of its influence. (1) A previous review found that noise sensitivity has no relationship with noise exposure. The current analyses give consistent results, and show that there is at most a very weak positive relationship. (2) It was observed earlier that noise sensitivity alters the effect of noise exposure on noise annoyance, and does not (only) have an additive effect. The current analyses confirm this, and show that the relation of the annoyance score with the noise exposure is relatively flat for nonsensitives while it is steeper for sensitives. (3) Previous studies showed that noise sensitivity also influences reactions other than noise annoyance. The current analyses of the aircraft noise study extend these results, but also indicate that noise sensitivity has relatively little influence on reactions to nonenvironmental conditions. © 2003 Acoustical Society of America.
Subject
Urban Development
Acoustics and Audiology
Built Environment
Data reduction
Sensitivity analysis
Noise sensitivity
Acoustic noise
noise
aircraft noise
annoyance
article
environmental exposure
environmental factor
hearing
noise measurement
noise pollution
perception
priority journal
sleep disorder
traffic noise
Aircraft
Arousal
Attitude
Circadian Rhythm
Data Collection
Habituation, Psychophysiologic
Humans
Noise, Transportation
Social Environment
Sound Spectrography
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TNO identifier
236995
ISSN
0001-4966
Source
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113 (3), 1492-1504
Document type
article