Masters Thesis

The relationship between metaperceptions and competitiveness in perceived performance evaluation

With the rise of technology comes interesting new possibilities. It is commonplace for people to carry a constant source of entertainment in their pocket. Because of this, in live performance situations, the performer is now not guaranteed attention of their audience. The performers may feel a sense of competition to obtain the attention. Members of the crowd in attendance at any given time may feel the urge to differ their attention to the distraction of text messages, email, social media etc. This research asks the question of how this distraction affects the live performance, and the relationship value on audience attention has with competitiveness style. To answer this question a sample of 34 college level music history students completed questionnaires. Partial support that value placed on audience engagement was related to feelings of increased performance from audience engagement was found, and audience attention was not found to be predictive of competitiveness style. Implications of these results and suggestions for further research are discussed.

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