Sound immission during leisure activities and auditory behavior?

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Año: 2007 vol. 68 p. 403 - 403

font lang="en" size="1" face="AdvEPSTIM"> The purpose of this paper is to describe the especially implemented techniques and the appropriately calibrated equipment used to measure, along four years, the sound immission levels during two recreational activities ? attendance at discos and use of musical personal player ? of a group of adolescents and its relationship with their auditory behaviour and psychosocial variables. For the measurements at discos, an arrangement of miniaturised measuring instruments, as well as a personal noise dose meter was used. For the real sound levels in the ears themselves by using musical personal player, an instrumental line ? manikin-technique ? complying with international standards was used. An auditory study together w