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Measurement of Overconfidence, Illusion of Control and Optimism in the Context of Behavioral Finance: Case of University Students

Cilt: 8 Sayı: 4 24 Ağustos 2020
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Measurement of Overconfidence, Illusion of Control and Optimism in the Context of Behavioral Finance: Case of University Students

Abstract

Behavioral finance is concerned with analyzing market anomalies as well as biases that cause these anomalies. There are many biases that are stated to have an effect on the decision processes of individuals in behavioural finance literature. It is noteworthy that the biases emphasized among them are overconfidence, illusion of control and extreme optimism. This study aimed at measuring the scale that consists of statements about these three biases on college students in Turkey and reliability and validity of this scale was tested. There are 19 items in the first version of the scale that aims to measure biases and used in this study. The questionnaire, including the demographic information of the students, was applied to a total of 522 students studying at different universities. As a result of the analyzes, it was determined that the final version of the scale Cronbach's Alpha value is 0.825 and the items in the scale were collected under 4 factors.

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

24 Ağustos 2020

Gönderilme Tarihi

3 Eylül 2019

Kabul Tarihi

28 Nisan 2020

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2020 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 4

Kaynak Göster

APA
Tekin, B. (2020). Measurement of Overconfidence, Illusion of Control and Optimism in the Context of Behavioral Finance: Case of University Students. Anemon Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 8(4), 1315-1322. https://doi.org/10.18506/anemon.615003

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