Annoyance reactions from aircraft noise exposure

Road Traffic Noise Annoyance in Relation to Average Noise Level, Number of Events and Maximum Noise Level

“…From a human perception point of view, this is reasonable as it becomes increasingly dif®cult to distinguish between two exposure situations with different numbers of events as the latter increases and the noise is instead perceived as a continuum. This ®nding also agrees with previous results from studies on aircraft noise at larger airports [3]. On the other hand, at smaller airports, the number of events becomes more important than the noise level [7].…”

Noise, noise sensitivity and psychiatric disorder: epidemiological and psychophysiological studies

“…Moreover, there are repeated findings of individual differences in susceptibility to sleep disturbance which include noise awakenings from sonic booms in soldiers scoring highly on neuroticism (Rylander et al 1972), worse sleep quality, more awakenings and more morning tiredness in noise sensitive students ) and more reported sleep disturbance in noise sensitive people from community surveys (Civil Aviation Authority, 1980). Noise effects on sleep may habituate over time (Vallet & Francois, 1982) but small sleep deficits may persist for years (Globus et al 1973).…”

“…Non-acoustic factors predicting annoyance include demographic factors, fear of the noise or noise source (Gunn et al 1981;Moran et al 1981;Bullen et al 1986) and attitudes to the noise source (TRACOR, 1971;Borsky, 1980). These include the predictability and controllability of the noise (Graeven, 1975), general dislike of the environment (McKennell, 1963;Langdon, 1976 b) and attitudes to the noise source including misfeasance (Borsky, 1961, Hazard, 1971Rylander et al 1972;Finke, 1974, Jonah et al 1981. There is some limited evidence that personality traits, such as extraversion (Shigehisa & Gunn, 1979;Ohrstrom el al.…”

Community response to noise: A review of factors influencing the relationship between noise exposure and reaction

“…The measurement of reaction has also varied greatly across studies: Community complaints have been employed as a measure of reaction (Luz et al, 1983) and Fields (1984) identified six main types of reaction scales in surveys. Furthermore, the use of these scales may range from employing a single question as a measure of reaction (e.g., Rylander et al, 1972) to constructing a weighted composite of several scales, with weightings based on regression analysis (e.g., Hede and Bullen, 1982b). The aggregation of reaction measures for grouped data may vary from averaging the general reaction score or averaging annoyance (Bradley, 1978), to calculating the percentage disturbed or percentage highly disturbed (Hall et al, 1979), or percentage annoyed or percentage very annoyed (Rylander et al, 1972), to percentage seriously affected (Hede and Bullen, 1982a).…”