Financial Investment&Gambling Risk Taking Behaviors and Ego States Relations
Financial Investment&Gambling Risk Taking Behaviors and Ego States Relations

Summary/Abstract: This study mainly examines the relationship between financial investment and gambling risk-taking tendencies and ego states. In order to evaluate the outcomes of the financial risk taking behaviors, either expected and predictable factors or behavioral factors should be taken into consideration. If this mechanism and affected factors are understood, it is easy to estimate the financial and economic consequences on individuals, on societies, on countries and totally on the world. In this study DOSPERT Scale with its subscales of financial investment and gambling and Ego States Scale with its subscales of critical parent, nurturing parent, adult, natural child, compliant child and rebellious child are used for evaluating financial investment and financial gambling risk-taking tendencies and ego states respectively. According to this study, while critical parent and nurturing parent ego states increase, financial risk taking behavior also increases and vice versa. On the other hand, only one relationship is found in between financial gambling risk taking and ego states. It is found that there is cause effect relation between natural child ego state and financial gambling risk taking behavior. The result of this connection reminds us that this result come from the nature of the natural child behaving freely and impulsively.

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