The influence of negative oriented personality traits on the effects of wind turbine noise

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 338-343

  Taylor, Jennifer ^a   Eastwick, Carol ^a   Wilson, Robin ^a   Lawrence, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frustration Discomfort; Negative Affectivity; Negative orientated personality traits; Neuroticism; Non specific symptom reporting; Wind Turbine Syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870241776     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.09.018     Document Type: Article

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