Individual noise sensitivity is a stable personality trait covering
attitudes towards a wide range of environmental sounds. It is a major
antecendent of noise annoyance reactions, and is assessed by obtaining
responses to one or several rating-scale items. The psychometric
properties of four German-language noise-sensitivity measures—a translation
of Weinstein's (1978) noise-sensitivity scale, a newly developed
questionnaire, and two single-item questions reflecting susceptibility
to sounds and noise, respectively—were evaluated, using a student
sample ofn =213 persons. Reliability coefficients ranged from r=0·70
for the rating of susceptibility to sounds to r=0·92 for the newly
constructed questionnaire. Construct validity was appraised by inter-correlating
noise-sensitivity scores, and by relating noise-sensitivity scores
to questionnaire measures of depression, stress, anger, and anxiety.
The results indicate that, while the questionnaire measures satisfy
established criteria for test evaluation, the one-item ratings do
not. Further exploratory analyses on a subset of the sample found
only weak relationships between self-report measures of noise sensitivity
and objective performance decrements under noise.
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%T Psychometric properties of four measures of noise sensitivity- A
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%X Individual noise sensitivity is a stable personality trait covering
attitudes towards a wide range of environmental sounds. It is a major
antecendent of noise annoyance reactions, and is assessed by obtaining
responses to one or several rating-scale items. The psychometric
properties of four German-language noise-sensitivity measures—a translation
of Weinstein's (1978) noise-sensitivity scale, a newly developed
questionnaire, and two single-item questions reflecting susceptibility
to sounds and noise, respectively—were evaluated, using a student
sample ofn =213 persons. Reliability coefficients ranged from r=0·70
for the rating of susceptibility to sounds to r=0·92 for the newly
constructed questionnaire. Construct validity was appraised by inter-correlating
noise-sensitivity scores, and by relating noise-sensitivity scores
to questionnaire measures of depression, stress, anger, and anxiety.
The results indicate that, while the questionnaire measures satisfy
established criteria for test evaluation, the one-item ratings do
not. Further exploratory analyses on a subset of the sample found
only weak relationships between self-report measures of noise sensitivity
and objective performance decrements under noise.
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attitudes towards a wide range of environmental sounds. It is a major
antecendent of noise annoyance reactions, and is assessed by obtaining
responses to one or several rating-scale items. The psychometric
properties of four German-language noise-sensitivity measures—a translation
of Weinstein's (1978) noise-sensitivity scale, a newly developed
questionnaire, and two single-item questions reflecting susceptibility
to sounds and noise, respectively—were evaluated, using a student
sample ofn =213 persons. Reliability coefficients ranged from r=0·70
for the rating of susceptibility to sounds to r=0·92 for the newly
constructed questionnaire. Construct validity was appraised by inter-correlating
noise-sensitivity scores, and by relating noise-sensitivity scores
to questionnaire measures of depression, stress, anger, and anxiety.
The results indicate that, while the questionnaire measures satisfy
established criteria for test evaluation, the one-item ratings do
not. Further exploratory analyses on a subset of the sample found
only weak relationships between self-report measures of noise sensitivity
and objective performance decrements under noise.},
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