Press the Red Button: Psychological and Physiological Predictors and Outcomes in Dyadic Team Tasks
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Dr. Michael Gillespie
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Task performance is a crucial aspect of organizational effectiveness, including financial outcomes, turnover, job satisfaction, individuals’ career outcomes, and the development of self-efficacy. This study aims to investigate measures of general self-efficacy, heart rate variability, negative affect, state anxiety, and trait anxiety as predictors of performance in a stressful dyadic decision-making task. In teams of two, participants worked together to complete a sequence of timed computer puzzles. Participants were also asked to complete a series of questionnaires both before and after the task. Our previous work presented a preliminary analysis of these variables with a small set of pilot data. With this current investigation, we will present updated analyses based on a larger data set to expand our previous findings. Based on our initial analysis we expect state anxiety to have a significant negative relationship with task success. Moreover, we predict that trust in an individual’s partner will be significantly negatively predicted by the trait anxiety of the individual and positively predicted by GSE of the partner. Lastly, we predict that teams with greater heart rate variability during the task will perform better. This study aims to shed light on how individual characteristics influence behavior and performance in a team-level context
Press the Red Button: Psychological and Physiological Predictors and Outcomes in Dyadic Team Tasks
Task performance is a crucial aspect of organizational effectiveness, including financial outcomes, turnover, job satisfaction, individuals’ career outcomes, and the development of self-efficacy. This study aims to investigate measures of general self-efficacy, heart rate variability, negative affect, state anxiety, and trait anxiety as predictors of performance in a stressful dyadic decision-making task. In teams of two, participants worked together to complete a sequence of timed computer puzzles. Participants were also asked to complete a series of questionnaires both before and after the task. Our previous work presented a preliminary analysis of these variables with a small set of pilot data. With this current investigation, we will present updated analyses based on a larger data set to expand our previous findings. Based on our initial analysis we expect state anxiety to have a significant negative relationship with task success. Moreover, we predict that trust in an individual’s partner will be significantly negatively predicted by the trait anxiety of the individual and positively predicted by GSE of the partner. Lastly, we predict that teams with greater heart rate variability during the task will perform better. This study aims to shed light on how individual characteristics influence behavior and performance in a team-level context
