The Development of a Multiple-Item Annoyance Scale (MIAS) for Transportation Noise Annoyance.

ABSTRACT: In 2001, Team#6 of the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN) recommended the use of two single international standardised questions and response scales. This recommendation has been widely accepted in the scientific community. Nevertheless, annoyance can be regarded as a multidimensional construct comprising the three elements: (1) experience of an often repeated noise-related disturbance and the behavioural response to cope with it, (2) an emotional/attitudinal response to the sound and its disturbing impact, and (3) the perceived control or coping capacity with regard to the noise situation. The psychometric properties of items reflecting these three elements have been explored for aircraft noise annoyance. Analyses were conducted using data of the NORAH-Study (

SUBMITTER: Schreckenberg D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5982010 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature