The reliability of the noise sensitivity questionnaire in a cross-national analysis

Noise and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 34, 2007, Pages 8-14

  Sandrock, Stephan ^a   Schütte, Martin ^b   Griefahn, Barbara ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cross national analysis; Generalizability theory; Noise sensitivity; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORY VALIDATION; ADOLESCENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; TRAFFIC NOISE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 38449089346     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.34699     Document Type: Article

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