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September 28, 2025Asia-Pacific Journal of Management Research and InnovationOpen Access

Personality Traits and Investment Behaviour: The Sequential Mediation of Overconfidence Bias and Risk Propensity

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SASyed Zain ul AbdinKTKayhan TajeddiniTGThilini Chathurika Gamage

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This research examines how personality traits influence investment behaviour via overconfidence bias and risk propensity.

Key Points

  • Investors' overconfidence positively influences their risk propensity, which in turn affects investment behaviour.
  • Conscientiousness and extraversion are the strongest predictors of overconfidence among investors in Pakistan.
  • Data from 392 individual investors were analyzed using structural equation modelling with SmartPLS 3.0 software.
  • This study highlights the sequential mediation effect of personality traits, overconfidence, and risk propensity on investment decisions.

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Abdin et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d9051441e1c178a14f487ehttps://doi.org/10.1177/2319510x251362058
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