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Over time, the assumptions of traditional financial theories have been questioned, particularly
the research area of behavioural finance led to new insights into human behaviour in financial
matters. Behavioural finance explores the psychological aspects of investors’ behaviour and tries
to understand how limited rational behaviour is in decision making. With research on risk tolerance,
which leads to the investor profiles ranking from conservative to aggressive. Therefore
behavioural finance research is related to Emotional Intelligence studies, consequently to Emotional
Competence studies. Emotional Competence is divided into five dimensions: Self-Awareness,
Emotions Management, Self-Motivation, Empathy, and Social Emotions Management
behaves at the time of the decision. This research tries to understand if there is a relationship
between the investor's profile and his emotional competence.
The main objectives of this research is: (i) To know the sociodemographic characteristics of the
sample; (ii) Identify the profile of the individual investor: conservative, moderate, or aggressive;
(iii) Identify the level of Emotional Competence of the individual investors (iv) Identify the most
relevant Emotional Competence among the sample; and finally (v) Analyse the relationship
between the dimensions of Emotional Competence and the types of Investor’s Profile.
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Keywords
Behavioural finance Emotional competence Investor’s profile Self-motivation
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Monte, Ana Paula; Veiga-Branco, Augusta; Giehl, Bárbara (2024). Investor’s profile and the level of emotional competence – is there any relationship?. In Serious Games & Emotional Competence in Higher Education. p. 34-34. ISBN 978-989-35409-3-0
Publisher
Universidade do Minho