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    The Conceptive of Risk of Outdoor Adventure Activities Influence on an Individual’s Self-Confidence
    (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Abeykoon, A.M.S.J.P.; Rajapaksha, R.P.D.D.
    The risk when engaging with adventure activities could affect differently on the physical and mental wellbeing of a person. There are two types of adventure ‘soft adventure and hard adventure (Hudson, 2003) so it includes hard and soft risk. Humans are believed to comprehend risk through two fundamental mechanisms, an ‘‘analytic’’ system and an ‘‘experiential’ ’system (P.Solvic,M.L.Finucane,E.Peters, D.G.MacGregor, 2004). Hence, this research study focuses on the conceptive of risk of outdoor adventure activities' influence on an individual’s Self-confidence. Researchers are found that adventure risk impacts mind and health. But according to the literature review, there is no conceptualization. Also, in the Sri Lankan context, much research has been done on adventure activities and adventure locations. But there is a paucity of research on outdoor adventure risk. Therefore, there is a lack in the knowledge domain in terms of conceptualization and construct development for further empirical studies in the field. The field of outdoor adventure management has not developed empirical tools to measure the impact of outdoor adventure risk on an individual’s Self-confidence with a particular concern in the Sri Lankan context. Therefore, this research study fills the gap in terms of the measurement of outdoor adventure risk impact on an individual’s Self-confidence. A qualitative approach has been adopted with thematic analysis methods to answer the research question along with the main objective. The PRISMA methodology coded the content of each of the 35 journal articles based on the themes to identify the latent idea of the phenomenon. Content and construct validity methods were used to confirm the items related to the factors. It was 10 items that were above the value of the content validity of individual items (I-CVI) than 0.8 out of 7 items originally developed. Only 7 items were agreed by raters which were at a level of 1 in terms of I-CVI. Any researchers who have an interest in the field of outdoor adventure can use the conceptualized model which has 8 factors to measure the risk of outdoor adventure activities influence on an individual’s Self-confidence with empirical validation.
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    A Study on Awareness of Stock Market investors in Sri Lanka
    (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Chathuranganie, W.H.I.; Muneera, W.A.F.; Weerasinghe, K.G.G.
    The investor is centralized character in an economy and stock market plays a major role of economic growth in a country. To minimize risk of investment investor should have good knowledge about capital market trading. This research considers about stock market awareness of the investors. The main objective of this study is to recognize the impact of stock market awareness on their investment. A structured questionnaire was used to reach this objective of the survey. The sample was consisted 150 responders who invest in the Colombo Stock Exchange. In the quantitative analysis, Likert-scale questions which describe the basic knowledge about stock market investment were used to develop an index regarding the awareness of the stock market. This research considers the differences in amount of investment, according to their awareness about stock market using the independent t-test between two groups; having awareness and not having awareness. Further, to recognize the factors which impact for the amount of investment used multiple regression model. Highest percentage of investors was male. 74% of investors were obtained A/L qualifications. Among them, 18% of investors had followed extra courses regarding to share market. 87% of investors used the savings for investment. 13% of investors were used non saving sources such as credits and real assets. Most of the investors had other investment beside of stock market investment. 78% of investors were concentrated on ordinary shares. According to the index; regarding the awareness of the stock market, 12% of investors had higher awareness about stock market and 23% of investors had medium awareness about the stock market. 70% of investor‘s awareness was not in a satisfactory state. Independent t-test result indicates that there hadn‘t any difference on investment amount according to awareness of investors. To maximize investment benefit through minimize their risk; awareness of investment should be improved. Therefore Securities and Exchange Commission ought to be involved to expand the informal educational ways which are familiar to investors.