Abstract:

Purpose - The purpose of this article is to explore whether when individual investors invest in certain financial instruments, their investment decisions, from the subdimensions of their emotional intelligence, are related to stress management and their general mood. Method - To obtain data from the specified sample, Bar-On’s Emotional Intelligence Scale and Rock’s Investment Decisions Scale were used. The data obtained from this research has been analyzed using the SPSS program. The study focused on the issues related to emotional intelligence, its dimensions and models and investment decisions, and in the implementation section the impact of investors’ stress management levels and their general mood on investment decisions on financial instruments. The findings - Individual investors investing in Istanbul have been determined to be influenced by their emotional intelligence while making investment decisions. In this context, significant differences between the investor’s characteristics, stress management and general mood, which are the underdimensions of emotional intelligence, have been identified. Discussions - The study found that emotional intelligence has more impact on investors than expected. In literature, the importance of behavioral finance that has not been studied enough about has been tried to be emphasized, it is intended to contribute to the relevant text. This research can be contributed to the relevant article by more up-to-date and by making it on more different groups of investors or companies.

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