Fang, Xiang;
Aletta, Francesco;
Mitchell, Andrew;
Oberman, Tin;
Kang, Jian;
(2024)
Determining factors for the appropriateness of soundscapes: A cross-sectional large-sample study in London (UK).
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
, 156
(5)
pp. 3588-3607.
10.1121/10.0034418.
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Abstract
This study examines the association between appropriateness and the pleasantness-eventfulness circumplex model, as well as the influencing environmental and personal factors, in accordance with the recommended questionnaire of ISO/TS 12913-2 (2018). A database was used, containing over 1000 soundscape surveys collected across eleven locations in London. Confirmatory factor analysis and the structural summary method were applied to validate the relationship between appropriateness and the pleasantness-eventfulness circumplex model, while linear multilevel models were developed to investigate the effect of personal and environmental factors on appropriateness. The findings highlight varying relationship between appropriateness and the pleasantness-eventfulness dimensions of the soundscape circumplex model. The effect of personal factors on appropriateness is not negligible, accounting for approximately 2.1% of the variance. In contrast to the effects of the categories of landscape composition and acoustic metrics, dominant sound source type is the most influential category of environmental factors, with natural sounds explaining the most variance at 6%. Traffic noise is negatively associated with appropriateness which varies by location, while human sounds are negatively associated with appropriateness when respondents were Asian/Asian British. The findings provide empirical evidence of the relationship between appropriateness and the soundscape circumplex model and offer comprehensive insights into the affecting factors.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Determining factors for the appropriateness of soundscapes: A cross-sectional large-sample study in London (UK) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1121/10.0034418 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0034418 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200819 |
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