A sense of presence and self-reported performance in international teams.
Research over the last two decades has explored the relationship between a variety of states of consciousness, performance, and motivation. These have included flow and a sense of presence in face-to-face, online, and virtual environments. This study examined the relationship between presence and flow experienced by 75 male and female participants from several Pacific Rim nations on 4 international teams and their self-reported performance, enjoyment, and motivation associated with team-related tasks. The results indicate that in these task situations, which are relatively novel because of their cultural diversity, self-reported performance correlated more highly with presence (r=.34, df=72, p<.01) than flow (r=.26, df=71, p<.05). Enjoyment and motivation, however, correlated more highly with flow (r =.60, df=71, p<.01 and r=.40, df=71, p<.01, respectively) than presence (r=.26, p<.05 and r=.25, p<.05). These findings suggest the need to explore further the relationship between activity- or task-related states of consciousness, the characteristics of the tasks involved, particularly in terms of their novelty, and the effect on performance and motivation.
Fontaine
Gary
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School of Communications, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822, USA. fontaine@hawaii.edu
D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D000569:Americas; D001364:Awareness; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004500:Education, Graduate; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005260:Female; D019649:Food Industry; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010139:Pacific Islands; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012933:Social Identification; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface