Testing Noise in the Field: A Brief Measure of Individual Noise Sensitivity

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 353-372

  Benfield, Jacob A ^a   Nurse, Gretchen A ^b   Jakubowski, Robert ^c   Gibson, Adam W ^d   Taff, B Derrick ^e   Newman, Peter ^e   Bell, Paul A ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c JVA Consulting   (United States)

^d UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental stressor; noise; noise sensitivity; personality; recreation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; NOISE; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896879686     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916512454430     Document Type: Article

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