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Personality Traits and the Propensity to Invest in the Nigerian Stock Exchange

This study examines the influence of personality traits on individual investment propensity in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), with specific focus on the Big Five personality dimensions: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and neuroticism. Anchored within the behavioural finance paradigm and guided by the Personality–Behavioural Investment Propensity Theory, the study adopts a positivist philosophy and a quantitative cross-sectional design. Data were obtained from 471 retail investors across Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt using the validated Big Five Inv…