The effects of measuring noise sensitivity with a single or several rating scale on the population prevalence and distribution of this personality trait

Turkish Acoustical Society - 36th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2007 ISTANBUL

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 3635-3644

  Amann, Edda ^a   Lercher, Peter ^a   Weichbold, Viktor ^a   Eisenmann, Alex ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH OUTCOMES; INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS; MEASURE NOISE; NOISE ANNOYANCE; NOISE EXPOSURE; NOISE SENSITIVITY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; POPULATION LEVELS; RATING SCALE; SOCIO-ACOUSTIC SURVEYS; TIME RESTRICTION;

EXHIBITIONS; NOISE POLLUTION; SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84873965863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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