Gilani Towseef Ahmed, Mir Mohammad Shafi, Gilani Mohammad Idrees
Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, J&K 190006, India.
Transportation & Planning Section, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, J&K 190006, India.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Apr;30(20):57434-57447. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-26507-2. Epub 2023 Mar 25.
Housewives are individuals who take on the caregiving role in the family in virtually every society and while discharging their duties experience serious psychological difficulties due to external environmental pollutants like air, noise, etc., which influences their efficiency of performing household activities. This study hypothesizes a causal association between perception of traffic noise and the reduction in performance of housewives in their daily household activities. A simple mediation model was utilized for the study with traffic noise perception as the exposure variable. The sensitivity to traffic noise, annoyance caused due to traffic noise, and the effect of traffic noise on housewives were evaluated using questionnaire survey. Of the respondents, 57.33% reported high level of traffic noise perception, while 65.81% reported high annoyance due to traffic noise perception. Of the respondents, 88.69% reported higher levels of agreement with regard to negative effect of traffic noise on their household activities. The results supported the hypothesis with respondents belonging to high and moderate noise perception groups reporting a higher reduction in performance as compared to those belonging to the low noise perception group at higher values of sensitivity. There was no significant direct effect among those who perceived traffic noise as high and moderate. However, the indirect path revealed that there was a significantly higher reduction in performance among those belonging to the high and moderate noise perception group as compared to those belonging to the low noise perception group while those who perceived traffic noise as high and moderate did not differ significantly only at higher levels of sensitivity. Using OGRS computational tool, a sensitivity value of 5.586 was identified as the Johnson-Neyman boundary of significance for the direct effect. The results from the study highlight the need for including environmental noise related regulations with regard to residential structures by the concerned authorities and also the need for undertaking more rigorous studies by health authorities and organizations so that the effects are minimized if not eliminated completely.
在几乎每个社会中，家庭主妇都是在家庭中承担照料职责的群体，在履行职责时，她们会因空气、噪音等外部环境污染物而遭遇严重的心理困扰，这些污染物会影响她们进行家务活动的效率。本研究假设交通噪音感知与家庭主妇日常家务活动表现下降之间存在因果关联。该研究采用了一个简单的中介模型，将交通噪音感知作为暴露变量。通过问卷调查评估了对交通噪音的敏感度、交通噪音引起的烦恼以及交通噪音对家庭主妇的影响。在受访者中，57.33%表示对交通噪音的感知程度较高，而65.81%表示因交通噪音感知而烦恼程度较高。在受访者中，88.69%表示更认同交通噪音对其家务活动有负面影响。研究结果支持了这一假设，在较高敏感度值时，与低噪音感知组的受访者相比，高噪音感知组和中等噪音感知组的受访者表现下降幅度更大。在高噪音感知者和中等噪音感知者之间没有显著的直接影响。然而，间接路径显示，与低噪音感知组相比，高噪音感知组和中等噪音感知组的受访者表现下降幅度显著更大，而高噪音感知者和中等噪音感知者仅在较高敏感度水平时没有显著差异。使用OGRS计算工具，确定敏感度值5.586为直接效应的约翰逊-内曼显著性边界。研究结果强调相关当局需要纳入有关住宅结构的环境噪音相关法规，同时卫生当局和组织也需要进行更严格的研究，以便即使不能完全消除影响，也能将其降至最低。
