Citation

Evans GW, Bullinger M, Hygge S. Psychol. Sci. 1998; 9(1): 75-77.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Association for Psychological Science, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1467-9280.00014

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Chronic exposure to aircraft noise elevated psychophysiological stress (resting blood pressure and overnight epinephrine and norepinephrine) and depressed quality-of-life indicators over a 2-year period among 9- to 11-year-old children. Data collected before and after the inauguration of a major new international airport in noise-impacted and comparison communities show that noise significantly elevates stress among children at ambient levels far below those necessary to produce hearing damage.

Language: en