This study was designed to examine empirically the main and interaction effect of gender, locality and learning style on the educational anxiety of secondary school students. Educational anxiety was treated as dependent variable and gender (male & female), locality (urban & rural) and Learning style (high & low) as independent variables. Multiple stratified random sampling techniques was used to select 350 school students studying in IXth class of six different Govt. schools of Rohtak District of Haryana State for the present study. Descriptive survey method was used for this study. The Learning style of the sample was assessed by using Learning Style Inventory developed (LSI-MK) by Misra (2005)[8] & to judge the educational anxiety of students, Educational Anxiety Inventory (EAI-SVAA) prepared by Sood & Anand (2012)[13] was used. Balanced Three-way ANOVA with 2×2×2 factorial design was used for the purpose of data analysis and Hartley's Test of Homogeneity was applied to test the assumption of homogeneity of variance for ANOVA. The data were subjected to analyze by using SPSS(version20). The findings of the study revealed that main effect of locality on educational anxiety of secondary school students was found significant whereas the main effect of other two independent variables i.e. gender and learning style on educational anxiety of secondary school students were not found significant. Significant double interaction effects of gender and locality; locality and learning style on the educational anxiety of secondary school students were reported whereas no significant double interaction effect of gender and learning style on the educational anxiety among secondary school students was observed. No significant triple interaction effect of gender, locality and learning style on the educational anxiety of secondary school students was found.
Educational Anxiety, Learning style, Gender, Localit
