Mobility restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic raised mental health consequences. This paper examines the triangulation of Digital Literacy (DL), psychological well-being, and effectiveness of remote teaching and learning during the pandemic. Survey responses collected from 518 schoolteachers in Sri Lanka are analyzed with Partial Least Squares – Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) method. Results indicate that Remote Education (RE) has twisted a stressful life for educators. DL negatively affects the psychological well-being of the teacher. The effectiveness of teaching and learning and teacher engagement depends upon their DL level. Educators’ stress and depression status mediate the outcome of remote teaching and learning mode. Moreover, digital skills count more than the accumulated teaching experience. We emphasize the adaptive role of the teacher for sustainable digital education. The results indicate that augmented education success could be obtained by investing in digital competence. It suggests that upgrading DL is an urgent role and alarms the policymakers and education managers to mitigate the potential mental health and social capital crisis.

Abstract:-The study investigates payout policy of firms listed in the Colombo Stock Exchange. Balanced panel data of 82 firms for years are used, from 2006 to 2010. The study employs Generalized Method of Moments estimator, Dynamic Panel Data analysis. The results indicate a significant negative influence of lagged dividend on the payout behavior of firms. The firms do not pay dividends according to a target payout ratio; use dividends as a signaling device and mollify the market. Level of earnings negatively related to the probability of a dividend distribution; the dividend payments do not reflect the earnings volatility. The financial leverage is insignificant in explaining payout, and the size of the firm has no control over payout policy. Institutional shareholding is a key determinant, affects positively on payout. Results also indicate a negative relationship between dividends and Managerial ownership. The powerful principals are able to impose the firm for desired payout. These findings are consistent with agency models in which dividends reduce the problems associated with information asymmetry.

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The physiological behaviors in Colombo Stock Exchange to be discovered as they cause to have market anomalies in which is not technically driven and there are compared to other countries. The purpose of this study is to observe whether overconfidence bias and self-attribution bias exist in Colombo Stock Exchange. This study utilises the Structural Equation Modeling to analyse the collected data by using a questionnaire survey from 418 active individual investors in Colombo Stock Exchange. Out of the three stages of rational decision-making theory, it is observed that evaluating alternatives contribute to overconfidence bias and self-attribution biased significantly. Therefore, it is evidenced that if the investors do not concern on demand identification and evaluating alternatives correctly, investors may be influenced to overconfidence bias and self-attribution bias that the investors in Colombo Stock Exchange follow the theory of rational decision-making which related to evaluating alternatives.