title: [Relationship between the Mandarin acceptable noise level and the personality traits in normal hearing adults].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the relationship between the Mandarin acceptable noise level (ANL) and the personality trait for normal-hearing adults.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-five Mandarin speakers, aged from 21 to 27, participated in this study. ANL materials and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) questionnaire were used to test the acceptable noise level and the personality trait for normal-hearing subjects. SPSS 17.0 was used to analyze the results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  ANL were (7.8 ± 2.9) dB in normal hearing participants. The P and N scores in EPQ were significantly correlated with ANL (r = 0.284 and 0.318, P < 0.01). No significant correlations were found between ANL and E and L scores (r = -0.036 and -.167, P > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Listeners with higher ANL were more likely to be eccentric, hostile, aggressive, and instabe, no ANL differences were found in listeners who were different in introvert-extravert or lying.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Capital Medical University, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100730, China.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Jian-yong
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Man-hua
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yu-ling
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009622:Noise; D010551:Personality; D055815:Young Adult