A multilevel longitudinal study of experiencing virtual presence in adolescence : The role of anxiety and openness to experience in the classroom
- Stavropoulos, Vasileios, Wilson, Peter, Kuss, Daria, Griffiths, Mark, Gentile, Douglas
- Authors: Stavropoulos, Vasileios , Wilson, Peter , Kuss, Daria , Griffiths, Mark , Gentile, Douglas
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 36, no. 5 (2017), p. 524-539
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- Description: Presence describes the feeling of reality and immersion that users of virtual/Internet environments have. Importantly, it has been suggested that there are individual and contextual differences regarding susceptibility to presence. These aspects of presence have been linked to both beneficial and disadvantageous uses of the Internet, such as online therapeutic applications and addictive Internet behaviours. In the present study, presence was studied in relation to individual anxiety symptoms and classroom-level openness to experience (OTE) using a normative sample of 648 adolescents aged between 16 and 18 years. Presence was assessed with the Presence II questionnaire, anxiety symptoms with the relevant subscales of the SCL-90-R, and OTE with the Five-Factor Questionnaire. A three-level hierarchical linear model was calculated. Results showed that experiencing presence in virtual environments dropped between the ages of 16 and 18 years. Additionally, although anxiety symptoms were associated with higher presence at 16 years, this association decreased with age. Results also demonstrated that adolescents in classrooms higher on OTE reported reduced level of experiencing presence. The practical and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
- Authors: Stavropoulos, Vasileios , Wilson, Peter , Kuss, Daria , Griffiths, Mark , Gentile, Douglas
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 36, no. 5 (2017), p. 524-539
- Full Text:
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- Description: Presence describes the feeling of reality and immersion that users of virtual/Internet environments have. Importantly, it has been suggested that there are individual and contextual differences regarding susceptibility to presence. These aspects of presence have been linked to both beneficial and disadvantageous uses of the Internet, such as online therapeutic applications and addictive Internet behaviours. In the present study, presence was studied in relation to individual anxiety symptoms and classroom-level openness to experience (OTE) using a normative sample of 648 adolescents aged between 16 and 18 years. Presence was assessed with the Presence II questionnaire, anxiety symptoms with the relevant subscales of the SCL-90-R, and OTE with the Five-Factor Questionnaire. A three-level hierarchical linear model was calculated. Results showed that experiencing presence in virtual environments dropped between the ages of 16 and 18 years. Additionally, although anxiety symptoms were associated with higher presence at 16 years, this association decreased with age. Results also demonstrated that adolescents in classrooms higher on OTE reported reduced level of experiencing presence. The practical and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
Operationalising digital soil mapping – lessons from Australia
- Kidd, Darren, Searle, Ross, Grundy, Mike, McBratney, Alex, Robinson, Nathan, O'Brien, Lauren, Zund, Peter, Arrouays, Dominique, Thomas, Mark, Padarian, José, Jones, Edward, Bennett, John, Minasny, Budiman, Holmes, Karen, Malone, Brendan, Liddicoat, Craig, Meier, Elizabeth, Stockmann, Uta, Wilson, Peter, Wilford, John, Payne, Jim, Ringrose-Voase, Anthony, Slater, Brian, Odgers, Nathan, Gray, Jonathan, van Gool, Dennis, Andrews, Kaitlyn, Harms, Ben, Stower, Liz, Triantafilis, John
- Authors: Kidd, Darren , Searle, Ross , Grundy, Mike , McBratney, Alex , Robinson, Nathan , O'Brien, Lauren , Zund, Peter , Arrouays, Dominique , Thomas, Mark , Padarian, José , Jones, Edward , Bennett, John , Minasny, Budiman , Holmes, Karen , Malone, Brendan , Liddicoat, Craig , Meier, Elizabeth , Stockmann, Uta , Wilson, Peter , Wilford, John , Payne, Jim , Ringrose-Voase, Anthony , Slater, Brian , Odgers, Nathan , Gray, Jonathan , van Gool, Dennis , Andrews, Kaitlyn , Harms, Ben , Stower, Liz , Triantafilis, John
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Geoderma Regional Vol. 23, no. (2020), p.
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- Description: Australia has advanced the science and application of Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Over the past decade, DSM in Australia has evolved from being purely research focused to become ‘operational’, where it is embedded into many soil-agency land resource assessment programs around the country. This has resulted from a series of ‘drivers’, such as an increased need for better quality and more complete soil information, and ‘enablers’, such as existing soil information systems, covariate development, serendipitous project funding, collaborations, and Australian DSM ‘champions’. However, these accomplishments were not met without some barriers along the way, such as a need to demonstrate and prove the science to the soil science community, and rapidly enable the various soil agencies' capacity to implement DSM. The long history of soil mapping in Australia has influenced the evolution and culmination of the operational DSM procedures, products and infrastructure in widespread use today, which is highlighted by several recent and significant Australian operational DSM case-studies at various extents. A set of operational DSM ‘workflows’ and ‘lessons learnt’ have also emerged from Australian DSM applications, which may provide some useful information and templates for other countries hoping to fast-track their own operational DSM capacity. However, some persistent themes were identified, such as applicable scale, and communicating uncertainty and map quality to end-users, which will need further development to progress operational DSM. © 2020 The Authors
- Authors: Kidd, Darren , Searle, Ross , Grundy, Mike , McBratney, Alex , Robinson, Nathan , O'Brien, Lauren , Zund, Peter , Arrouays, Dominique , Thomas, Mark , Padarian, José , Jones, Edward , Bennett, John , Minasny, Budiman , Holmes, Karen , Malone, Brendan , Liddicoat, Craig , Meier, Elizabeth , Stockmann, Uta , Wilson, Peter , Wilford, John , Payne, Jim , Ringrose-Voase, Anthony , Slater, Brian , Odgers, Nathan , Gray, Jonathan , van Gool, Dennis , Andrews, Kaitlyn , Harms, Ben , Stower, Liz , Triantafilis, John
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Geoderma Regional Vol. 23, no. (2020), p.
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- Description: Australia has advanced the science and application of Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Over the past decade, DSM in Australia has evolved from being purely research focused to become ‘operational’, where it is embedded into many soil-agency land resource assessment programs around the country. This has resulted from a series of ‘drivers’, such as an increased need for better quality and more complete soil information, and ‘enablers’, such as existing soil information systems, covariate development, serendipitous project funding, collaborations, and Australian DSM ‘champions’. However, these accomplishments were not met without some barriers along the way, such as a need to demonstrate and prove the science to the soil science community, and rapidly enable the various soil agencies' capacity to implement DSM. The long history of soil mapping in Australia has influenced the evolution and culmination of the operational DSM procedures, products and infrastructure in widespread use today, which is highlighted by several recent and significant Australian operational DSM case-studies at various extents. A set of operational DSM ‘workflows’ and ‘lessons learnt’ have also emerged from Australian DSM applications, which may provide some useful information and templates for other countries hoping to fast-track their own operational DSM capacity. However, some persistent themes were identified, such as applicable scale, and communicating uncertainty and map quality to end-users, which will need further development to progress operational DSM. © 2020 The Authors
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