Article in International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations · October 019 doi: 10. 4018/ijgcms. 2019100103 citations reads 105 authors: Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects

Result 3 – Interaction of Game Involvement with Cognitive Load

AthirdMANCOVAwascarriedouttodemonstratethepossibleeffectsofGIwithlevelofCLand

typeofBE(MBvs.SB)onBRaandADGa.Telepresencewasthecovariate.

First,thebasicassumptionsofMANCOVAweretested.TheLevene’stestresultsshowed

homogeneitybetweenthevariancesofdependentvariables(F

BRa

=1.839;p=0.082andF

ADGa

=

1.292;p=0.256).Box’sMtestalsopresentedthattheobservedcovariancematricesofthedependent

variableswereequalacrossgroups(F=1.303;p=0.061).

TheresultsshowedsignificanteffectsforGIforbothBRa(F=8.353;p=0.000)andADGa(F

=9.304;p=0.000).TheMANCOVAresultsshowedthatwhenGIwasintroduced,aslightdifference

wasobservedinCL.Similartothesecondhypothesis,CLwassignificantforADGa(F=11.362;

p=0.001)butnotforBRa(F=0.002;p=.962).Accordingtotheresults,theintroductionofGI