Annoyance

About: Annoyance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2015 publications have been published within this topic receiving 38300 citations. The topic is also known as: annoy.

Exposure-response relationships on community annoyance to transportation noise

Abstract: The first synthesis study for the community response to noise was reported by Shultz in 1978 (Schultz 1978). It covers the response to all the traffic noise including aircraft as well as ground vehicles. Kryter found that the response to ground traffic noise differed from that to air traffic noise at the same exposure level (Kryter 1982). Finegold et al. reanalyzed the datasets and recommended three different curves to describe the community annoyance to aircraft, road traffic and railway noise (Finegold et al. 1994). Recently, Miedema et al. made a synthesis study from datasets of 45 different social surveys and established annoyance curves for each transportation noise (Miedema & Vos 1998; Miedema & Oudshoorn 2001).

Determination of noise sensitivity within an internet survey using a reduced version of the Noise Sensitivity Questionnaire

Abstract: The Noise Sensitivity Questionnaire (NoiSeQ), that determines noise sensitivity as a moderator of annoyance globally and separately for different everyday activities is with 35 items too long for extended social surveys. This study aimed at the development of a shorter version. Using 429 questionnaires (266 women, 163 men, 16‐74 yrs) three factor analyses were performed leading to the NoiSeQ‐R that consists of the three subscales 'Sleep', 'Habitation', and 'Work' with 4 items each. The scores are normally distributed, internal consistency is α= 0.87 and test‐retest reliability varies between rtt = 0.66 and 0.74 depending on the time gaps that varied between 1 to 37 months. To test the validity the NoiSeQ‐R was applied to a field study where 190 residents (102 males, 88 females, 17‐80 years, median: 51 years) in the vicinity of a large airport rated their chronic annoyance (for the previous 12 months) and their actual annoyance hourly during four consecutive days. As expected, noise sensitivity did not correlate with the individual noise load but significantly with annoyance and with age. Thus the NoiSeQ‐R, which is available in ten languages, is regarded as a reliable and valid instrument which can be easily applied in even extended surveys.

Annoyance and frustration: Emotional responses to being assessed in higher education:

Abstract: Despite many articles written about assessment in higher education, surprisingly few have examined students’ emotional responses to assessment and their perceptions of this impact on their learning...

Noise annoyance around an international airport planned to be extended

Abstract: A large field study with 2312 residents from 66 areas around Frankfurt Airport was performed in 2005 in order to investigate the effects of aircraft noise on annoyance and health-related quality of life. The survey was carried out in a period between the announcement and the planned implementation of an airport extension (construction of a new runway). The results show among others a shift in noise annoyance in comparison to dose-response curves generated from meta-analyses including older studies. In addition to noise exposure non-acoustical factors like attitudes towards the noise source, expectations concerning future residential situation after airport extension and (dis-)trust in authorities had a substantial influence on noise annoyance.