The Effects of Group Performance on Cognitions, Satisfaction, and Behavior: A Process Model

Abstract

A model was developed and tested that traces the process by which group task performance influences individual cognitive and affective responses and the ways that these factors in turn influence subsequent effort and performance. The results indicated that initial performance influences attributions which in turn affect effort-reward expectancies. It was also found that attributions and expectancies had direct influences on satisfaction and indirect influences on subsequent effort and performance. With regard to intragroup processes it was found that high-cohesive groups outperformed low-cohesive groups. Individuals shared credit for success with their teammates while blaming members of opposing teams for their failures.