Does resilience affect aversion based behavioral finance biases?

Abstract

This research is the first study to examine the relationship between aversion based behavioral finance biases and resilience. The aim of the study is to find out whether there is any significant relationship between selected aversion based behavioral finance biases and resilience or not. In this study, in order to measure ambiguity aversion, loss aversion and regret aversion behavioral finance biases, two questions for each biases with 5-point Likert type response scale and in order to measure the resilience, the Turkish version of the Resilience Scale for Adults were used. The findings show that there is a negative significant relationship between aversion based behavioral finance biases and resilience. In the study, although it is found that there is a significant relationship between aversion based behavioral finance biases and age; no significant relationship is found between aversion based behavioral finance biases and gender, marital status and education level. The statistically meaningful relationship between aversion based behavioral finance biases and resilience suggests that; by using some methods for empowering the resilience which is a developable competency; it could be thought that some effects could be created in order to reduce the anomalies as a result of aversion based behavioral finance biases.