Anxiety as an “epistemic” emotion: An uncertainty theory of anxiety

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Prior mathematics achievement, cognitive appraisals and anxiety as predictors of Finnish students’ later mathematics performance and career orientation (2010, background): “The object of anxiety is not a danger in itself but rather ‘the uncertainty about some event or state which implies a possible danger’ (Miceli & Castelfranchi, 2005 , p.”
The Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions: Assumptions, Corollaries, and Implications for Educational Research and Practice (2006, result): “This assumption is in line with uncertainty theory of anxiety and related approaches (Miceli & Castelfranchi, 2005; Folkman & Lazarus, 1985).”
Incurious Motives to Seek Information about Potential Threats (2010, background): “…potential threats, information-seeking is not motivated by a desire to stimulate interest or improve understanding, as with curiosity, but rather by a desire to reduce worry associated with the potential threat (see also Feltwell & Rees, 2004; Miceli & Castelfranchi, 2005 for highly similar views).”