A Study of the Emotional Intelligence and Personality Traits of University Finance Students

Autor/inn/en	Rosales-Pérez, Ana M.; Fernández-Gámez, Manuel A.; Torroba-Díaz, Macarena; Molina-Gómez, Jesús
Titel	A Study of the Emotional Intelligence and Personality Traits of University Finance Students
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 11 (2021), Artikel 25 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rosales-Pérez, Ana M.) ORCID (Molina-Gómez, Jesús)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Emotional Intelligence; Personality Traits; College Students; Public Colleges; Economics Education; Business Administration Education; Accounting; Financial Services; Professional Personnel; Investment; Risk; Bias; Self Control; Decision Making; Personality Measures; Foreign Countries; Spain; Big Five Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Emotionale Intelligenz; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Collegestudent; Wirtschaftskunde; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Personalbestand; Investments; Geldanlage; Investiton; Risiko; Selbstbeherrschung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ausland; Spanien
Abstract	Studies on financial behavior indicate that emotional intelligence (EI) and personality traits (PTs) explain much of the bias in financial activity. This study aims to identify in which dimensions of theEI and PTs of university students in finance further training is needed to avoid financial behavior bias. To this end, the EI and PT levels of a sample of university finance students and financial industry professionals were compared using the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue) and Big Five Inventory questionnaire. Subsequently, the dimensions of EI and PTs in which students have a deficit compared to professionals were identified, and the impacts that this deficit causes on the financial behavior of students were determined. The results indicate that students are deficient in the EI competencies related to empathy, emotion regulation, self-motivation, stress management, optimism, and self-esteem. Furthermore, PTs are related to kindness, awareness, openness, and extraversion. This deficit makes students more likely to have financial behavior biases such as risk tolerance, endowment, optimism, self-control, and loss aversion. These findings suggest that universities should be aware of providing financial students with full training in EI and PTs to help them successfully address their professional future. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01