Noise-sensitive people differ physiologically and psychologically from non-sensitive ones
Evidence
Noise sensitivity has indirect effects on health, creating a stressful psychological condition, increasing psychological reactivity of the cardiovascular system and covarying with the degree of psychopathology. Noise-sensitive people (NSP) have significantly greater increases in heart rate and systolic and diastolic blood pressure when compared with non-sensitive noise people (NNSP). Non-sensitive noise people seem more connected to psychiatric problems such as phobic disorders and depression. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 925
Categorization
- QUESTION: The claim that non-sensitive people show more phobic disorder and depression is counterintuitive and worth chasing against later studies.
- XREF: Pairs with the fight-or-flight and cardiovascular noise claims from One Square Inch of Silence. — connects to: Individual differences in noise annoyance stem from noise sensitivity — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1534; Higher socioeconomic status correlates with higher noise sensitivity — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 933; Loudness response variability is informative signal, not noise to discard — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 2513 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Listener personality biases reported auditory thresholds across subjects
#expands(0.90) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 886 - Perceptual thresholds blur because listener internal noise varies by personality
#expands(0.90) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 886 - Higher socioeconomic status correlates with higher noise sensitivity
#expands(0.80) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 933 - Loudness response variability is informative signal, not noise to discard
#corroborates(0.80) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 2513