Relations Among Multiple Dimensions of Self-Reported Listening Effort in Response to an Auditory Psychomotor Vigilance Task.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Listening effort is a broad construct, and there is no consensus on how to subdivide listening effort into dimensions. This project focuses on the subjective experience of effortful listening and tests if cognitive workload, mental fatigue, and mood are interrelated dimensions.

Method

Two online studies tested young adults (n = 74 and n = 195) and measured subjective workload, fatigue (subscales of fatigue and energy), and mood (subscales of positive and negative mood) before and after a challenging listening task. In the listening effort task, participants responded to intermittent 1-kHz target tones in continuous white noise for approximately 12 min.

Results

Correlations and principal component analysis showed that fatigue and mood were distinc

SUBMITTER: Golob EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11427424 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature