Emotional Responses to Environmental Sounds and Self-Reported Well-Being

130 participants rated 120 environmental sounds on valence and arousal and completed well-being questionnaires. The study included 40 hearing aid users and 90 individuals with self-reported normal hearing, the latter split into subgroups with no-to-minimal and some hearing difficulties. Dina Lelic authored this dataset, last updated on 2026-05-25.

Use Cases

• Analyze associations between emotional sound sensitivity and emotional communication difficulties based on questionnaire scores.
• Compare well-being indicators like listening pleasantness and mental well-being across hearing aid users and non-users.
• Investigate how valence and arousal ratings of environmental sounds correlate with self-reported hearing challenges.

Strengths

• Includes data from 130 participants, a moderate sample size for a specialized study.
• Compares three distinct participant groups: hearing aid users and two subgroups of normal-hearing individuals based on self-reported difficulties.
• Measures multiple well-being indicators, including affect, emotional communication, listening pleasantness, and mental well-being.

Limitations

• Dataset size is 107.9 KB, indicating a very limited scope and likely summary-level data rather than raw participant responses.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for detailed statistical modeling.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data likely collected via participant surveys and sound rating tasks as described in the study.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-25 07:55:08; freshness should be verified.