Corona Anxiety and Women Trading Style

Khalili, Yassaman; Heydari Rostami, Keramatollah; Shahali, Marjan

doi:10.61186/ijf.2024.416832.1433

Corona Anxiety and Women Trading Style

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Yassaman Khalili ¹

Keramatollah Heydari Rostami ²

Marjan Shahali ³

¹ Assistant Prof., Department of Accounting, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

² Assistant prof., Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Arak University, Arak, Iran.

³ Department of Accounting, Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damghan, Iran.

10.61186/ijf.2024.416832.1433

Abstract

Women have been trying to gain independence throughout history. In recent years, advances in technology and business have helped women to achieve this goal. According to women's personality and psychological characteristics, there are differences in their trading styles. One of the factors influencing the choice of this type of strategy is stress. In the last few years, stress and anxiety caused by Corona have become epidemic. In order to test the hypotheses, women traders active in the financial markets of Iran were examined using a Likert questionnaire in 2022, and interesting results were obtained. In order to carry out the research of this study, an interview was conducted first to find suitable questions and validity. Then, the statistical population and sample were selected, and the final questionnaire was distributed among them. MATLAB software was used to identify the number of common descriptive characteristics of the respondents, and finally, using EViews software, statistical analysis related to hypothesis testing was performed. The result shows that women play more conservatively and are risk-averse during the period of coronavirus infection. It has no effect on the volume and capital used in the transaction. The Corona anxiety has significant effects on the three dependent variables of conservatism, trading style, and trading (volume, capital, and number of transactions).

Keywords

Corona

Trading Styles

Conservatism

Risk Aversion

Risk Taking

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