The influence of personality traits and gender on noise annoyance in laboratory studies

Publication date: 1 October 2019Source: Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 148Author(s): Mohammad Hossein Beheshti, Ebrahim Taban, Seyed Ehsan Samaei, Mohammad Faridan, Farahnaz Khajehnasiri, Leila Tajik Khaveh, Maryam Borhani Jebeli, Ahmad Mehri, Ali TajpoorAbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits (extraversion and neuroticism) and noise-induced annoyance. The effect of exposure to the single-frequency noise stimuli with low (65 dB) and high (85 dB) intensity on noise-induced annoyance levels of 169 students was studied. A tone generator software was used to generate noise stimuli with different frequencies. The noise induced annoyance levels were measured by the numerical rating scale recommended by ISO/TS 15666:2003. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Scale (EPQ-RS) which included a lie scale was employed to assess the dimensions such as personality, neuroticism, extraversion and psychoticism. Results revealed that for the low-intensity noise stimuli, at frequencies below 1000 Hz, the noise induced annoyance levels were equal for extroverts and introverts. But at frequencies above 1000 Hz, the levels for introverts were higher than extroverts. For the subjects exposed to the low-intensity noise stimuli, those with neurotic personality trait felt more noise induced annoyance than non-neurotic subjects at all frequencies. Exposure to high-intensity noise stimuli contributed to more noise...
Source: Personality and Individual Differences - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research