Construction of standard noise annoyance scales in Japanese and English by bilingual people

在订购时，以比较社区对国际噪音的反应，标准的无知尺度是必需的。我们根据噪音调查对双语（英语和日语）人的反应进行了比较的英语和日语比例。在对比中，ICBEN第6小组成员正在进行一项国际联合研究，以构建标准的无知尺度，这些人只在自己的语言中流动。一个实验室实验是通过在每种语言中使用四种疲劳量表，从我们的两个问题调查到双语人，并从ICBEN联合研究中使用四个疲劳量表。“Annoyance”和“urusai”在英语和日语中使用的单词来描述noise的不利影响。对于这个实验，在45、55、65和75分贝的水平上讲评估的道路交通噪音的人，用四个尺度在每种语言中。发现的小样本大小和结果的变异性意味着以下的合并应被归类为意图：1.在某些条件下，在4-pt或5-pt口头尺度上的答复的分布取决于修改者使用的尺度上的差异。此模式为英语语言的主题找到了，但不是为英语语言的主题找到的。日本express比英语语言主题使用相同的噪音暴露来进行规模化，这是先前被认为是相等的。这并不清楚这些差异的含义，即问题或规模是不可比的，或者它们在噪音敏感的情况下，在英国人和讲英语的国家的人中存在着真正的差异。

In order to compare community responses to noise internationally, standard annoyance scales are required. We constructed comparable English and Japanese scales for noise annoyance based on the responses of bilingual (English and Japanese) people in a questionnaire survey. In contrast ICBEN Team 6 members have conducted an international joint study to construct standard annoyance scales with people who are fluent in only their own languages. A laboratory experiment was conducted that used four annoyance scales in each language, 4-and 5-point verbal scales from both our questionnaire survey to bilingual people and from the ICBEN joint study. "Annoyance" and "urusai" were used as the word to describe the adverse effect of noise in English and Japanese. For this experiment 51 Japanese and 45 English speaking people evaluated road traffic noises at the levels of 45, 55, 65 and 75 dB LィイD2AeqィエD2 with the four scales in each language.The small sample sizes and resulting variability in the findings mean that the following conclusions should be regarded as tentative:1.Under some conditions, the distribution of answers on 4-pt or 5-pt verbal scales depends upon differences in the intensity of the modifiers used on the scales. This pattern was found for Japanese subjects both not for English-speaking subjects.2. Japanese express more annoyance than English-language subjects with the same noise exposure using scales that were previously judged to be equivalent. It is not clear whether these differences indicate that the questions or scales are not comparable or that there are genuine differences in the noise sensitively of Japanese people and people from English-speaking countries.