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.
School of Communications, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822, USA. fontaine@hawaii.edu
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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