A qualitative study of annoyance caused by floor impact sounds in apartment buildings

Park, SH ORCID: 0000-0002-1476-2378 and Lee, PJ ORCID: 0000-0002-0328-9175 (2015) A qualitative study of annoyance caused by floor impact sounds in apartment buildings. In: Euronoise 2015, Maastricht.

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Abstract

A qualitative study was conducted to investigate how residents in apartment buildings perceive and are affected by floor impact sounds. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in South Korea and Grounded Theory was used to analyse the data. Through three coding phases of Grounded Theory (open, axial and selective), verbatim transcripts of each interview were probed and the relationship between non-acoustic factors and noise annoyance was formulated. It was found that past experience of the issue, actual disturbance and each individual’s noise sensitivity influenced noise annoyance as causal conditions. In addition, the development from noise annoyance to coping behaviours was discovered to be influenced by intervening conditions: empathy and house or neighbourhood satisfaction. As consequences of individuals’ coping behaviours, having negative attitudes to the issue or relevant authorities, considering moving house as avoidance behaviour, health and relationship problems were identified.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
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Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	12 Jun 2015 10:40
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2022 01:31
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2013599