ABSTRACT
The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and stock market performance under the structural break in case of Turkey for the period from April 10, 2020 to March 19, 2021. Here, the confirmed cases, deaths, tests and recoveries during COVID-19 pandemic were carried out as the COVID-19 pandemic variables. The obtained empirical findings indicated that i) the series were integrated at I(1), ii) the series were cointegrated in the presence of structural break, iii) the confirmed number of cases and deaths reduced the stock market performance, while the confirmed number of tests and recoveries enhanced the performance of the stock market under the structural break, and iv) in the long run the bidirectional causality among the confirmed number of cases, deaths and recoveries with stock market performance and the unidirectional causality running from the confirmed number of tests to stock market performance were found. In brief, the study's empirical results could provide several policy suggestions to governments, policy makers, investors and risk managers to take several precautions that decreased the negative effects of the epidemics on the Turkish stock market performance.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to investigate the attitudes and happiness relationships of health workers who played a very important role in the process of the Covid 19 outbreak. The population of this study, in which the relationship between attitude toward sports and happiness is investigated, is composed of health care industry employees, while the sample group is 115 people who voluntarily accepted to participate in the study, selected by the convenience sampling method from this industry. The "Attitude towards Sports Scale", which was developed by Sent..rk (2015) and provided validity and reliability, and the "Oxford Happiness Scale" developed by Hills and Argyle (2002), adapted to Turkish by Dogan and ....tok (2011) in order to evaluate the level of happiness were used. As well as the descriptive statistics, Independent-Samples t test, One-Way Anova test and correlation and regression methods were used within the scope of relational model. As a result;It has been found that there is a positive relationship between attitude towards sports and happiness, and that "living with sports" has a significant positive contribution in explaining the effect of attitude towards sports on happiness. It can also be said that living with sports at any time, especially during the Covid 19 process, will increase the level of happiness.