General scales of community reaction to noise (dissatisfaction and perceived affectedness) are more reliable than scales of annoyance
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General scales of community reaction to noise (dissatisfaction and perceived affectedness) are more reliable than scales of annoyance.
General measures of reaction to noise, which assess the respondent's perceived affectedness or dissatisfaction, appear to be more valid and internally consistent than more narrow measures, such as specific assessment of noise annoyance. However, the test-retest reliability of general and specific measures has yet to be compared. As a part of the large-scale Sydney Airport Health Study, 97 respo...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.1385178