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A Conceptual Model of the Healthy Acoustic Environment: Elements, Framework, and Definition

Noise has been proved to be a risk factor of physiological and psychological health. Therefore, creating a high-quality acoustic environment for people is particularly important. The aims of this study are to explore the basic elements, propose a conceptual framework, and identify the definition of...

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Autores principales: Chen, Jing, Ma, Hui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7658336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33192806
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554285
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description Noise has been proved to be a risk factor of physiological and psychological health. Therefore, creating a high-quality acoustic environment for people is particularly important. The aims of this study are to explore the basic elements, propose a conceptual framework, and identify the definition of a healthy acoustic environment. Through the method of grounded theory, 75 respondents participated in interviews. The results revealed that (1) “sound sources and acoustic environment,” “people’s demands,” “criteria and standards of a healthy acoustic environment,” “matching process,” “secondary fitting process,” “context,” and “acoustic environment quality” are the basic elements of a healthy acoustic environment; (2) “matching process” and “secondary fitting process” connect all the other categories and reflect the processes by which a healthy acoustic environment is judged; (3) based on the associations revealed in the framework, a healthy acoustic environment is defined as a supportive acoustic environment that can match people’s physiological, psychological, and behavioral demands in context, and that also fits the criteria and standards. The proposal of a conceptual model for a healthy acoustic environment can provide a new perspective on designing and establishing a high-quality acoustic environment required by people in the near future.
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spelling pubmed-76583362020-11-13 A Conceptual Model of the Healthy Acoustic Environment: Elements, Framework, and Definition Chen, Jing Ma, Hui Front Psychol Psychology Noise has been proved to be a risk factor of physiological and psychological health. Therefore, creating a high-quality acoustic environment for people is particularly important. The aims of this study are to explore the basic elements, propose a conceptual framework, and identify the definition of a healthy acoustic environment. Through the method of grounded theory, 75 respondents participated in interviews. The results revealed that (1) “sound sources and acoustic environment,” “people’s demands,” “criteria and standards of a healthy acoustic environment,” “matching process,” “secondary fitting process,” “context,” and “acoustic environment quality” are the basic elements of a healthy acoustic environment; (2) “matching process” and “secondary fitting process” connect all the other categories and reflect the processes by which a healthy acoustic environment is judged; (3) based on the associations revealed in the framework, a healthy acoustic environment is defined as a supportive acoustic environment that can match people’s physiological, psychological, and behavioral demands in context, and that also fits the criteria and standards. The proposal of a conceptual model for a healthy acoustic environment can provide a new perspective on designing and establishing a high-quality acoustic environment required by people in the near future. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7658336/ /pubmed/33192806 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554285 Text en Copyright © 2020 Chen and Ma. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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