[Factors related to the degree of annoyance in school children caused by Shinkansen noise].
As part of a longitudinal study dealing with the effects of the noise from the Tohoku Shinkansen on the living environment of school children, social surveys were conducted on children in an elementary school near the Tohoku Shinkansen line in Saitama prefecture, by means of a questionnaire from July 1984 through February 1986. Between October and November in 1986, noise levels were also measured adjacent to the houses of subjects who lived within one hundred meters of the railroad track. The present paper is devoted to the examination by multiple regression analysis of factors related to the degree of annoyance at home resulting from the Tohoku Shinkansen noise expressed by subjects. The main results were as follows: 1. Multiple correlation coefficients between the degree of annoyance of the Tohoku Shinkansen noise at home and noise levels were less than 0.3. 2. When annoyance at school from the noise and the self-rated quality of sleep were incorporated in multiple correlations, the values of multiple correlation coefficients exceeded 0.5. These results suggest that so far as individual responses are considered, non-physical factors such as sensitivity to noise and quality of sleep account for a considerable part of the total variance of individual responses.
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Faculty of Human Development, Kobe University.
D002648:Child; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009624:Noise, Transportation; D011890:Railroads; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires