Kawabata T
Faculty of Human Development, Kobe University.
Nihon Koshu Eisei Zasshi. 1994 Dec;41(12):1131-41.
As part of a longitudinal study dealing with the effects of the noise from the Tohoku Shinkansen on the living environment of school children, social surveys were conducted on children in an elementary school near the Tohoku Shinkansen line in Saitama prefecture, by means of a questionnaire from July 1984 through February 1986. Between October and November in 1986, noise levels were also measured adjacent to the houses of subjects who lived within one hundred meters of the railroad track. The present paper is devoted to the examination by multiple regression analysis of factors related to the degree of annoyance at home resulting from the Tohoku Shinkansen noise expressed by subjects. The main results were as follows: 1. Multiple correlation coefficients between the degree of annoyance of the Tohoku Shinkansen noise at home and noise levels were less than 0.3. 2. When annoyance at school from the noise and the self-rated quality of sleep were incorporated in multiple correlations, the values of multiple correlation coefficients exceeded 0.5. These results suggest that so far as individual responses are considered, non-physical factors such as sensitivity to noise and quality of sleep account for a considerable part of the total variance of individual responses.
作为一项关于东北新干线噪音对学童生活环境影响的纵向研究的一部分，1984年7月至1986年2月期间，通过问卷调查的方式，对埼玉县东北新干线线路附近一所小学的学生进行了社会调查。1986年10月至11月期间，还对居住在距离铁轨100米以内的受试者房屋附近的噪音水平进行了测量。本文致力于通过多元回归分析来检验与受试者所表达的因东北新干线噪音而在家中产生的烦恼程度相关的因素。主要结果如下：1. 在家中东北新干线噪音的烦恼程度与噪音水平之间的复相关系数小于0.3。2. 当将学校里噪音带来的烦恼和自我评定的睡眠质量纳入多元相关分析时，复相关系数的值超过了0.5。这些结果表明，就个体反应而言，诸如对噪音的敏感度和睡眠质量等非物理因素在个体反应的总方差中占相当大的比例。
