ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPETENCE BE LIEFS AND THE PERFORMANCE IN CONTROLLING A COMPLEX PROBLEM

Based on Dorner's (1985) general model oi action control, Staudel (198 7) elaborated the relationship between competence and performance in t he domain of complex problem solving. Staudel assumes that a person's actual competence can promote the performance in controlling a dynamic system. In our study a longitudinal design with three measurement poi nts was realized to investigate the relationship between competence an d performance. N=60 subjects worked on different questionnaires and th ree complex problems, all of which were economic scenarios. Path analy ses show a substantial influence of the performance on the actual comp etence, but no impact of the actual competence on the performance.