Abstract
A large number of soundscape studies have shown that soundscapes or sound environments affect people's emotional states, behaviors, and performance. This paper studies the effects of community noise, especially noise from transportations, on the residents’ emotional feelings about the environment. Based upon a large-scale questionnaire survey of residents about the community noise such as sounds of traffic and people's activity, it presents the specific relationships between the sound sources and a range of emotional feelings towards the community environment, such as feeling it annoying, calm, pleasant or exciting, using statistical methods including correlation analysis and principal component analysis. It shows that people’s emotional feelings of the sound environment largely depend on the dominant sound sources they hear; also the sound sources in soundscapes (activities in the communities) tend to appear in groups which collectively influence people’s feelings.
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