Impact on Mental Health Wellbeing, Lifestyle, and Financial Condition of Stock Traders during the Unprecedented Situations of Covid Lockdown and Ukraine-Russia War

ABSTRACT

During this pandemic and Post Pandemic Volatility of the world economics and the various war like situations in different parts of the world, the stock markets around the globe are on a roller coaster. The level of uncertainty, and emotional turmoil, has increased among Indian stock traders. This has led to an enormous level of increase of the stress that the traders are under, while continuing to trade. The main objective of this research study is to evaluate the impact of trading stress on the mental health, lifestyle, and financial condition of stock traders. This study includes respondents of required sample size. A purposive sampling technique was used to consider only active Indian stock traders for the study. A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire which was developed by Manda & Sana, 2021 was given to respondents using Google forms. The simple linear regression statistical method was used. The results indicate that general trading stress has an impact on the mental health, lifestyle and financial condition of stock traders.