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The role that other more general dysfunctional beliefs about thoughts play in this disorder has also been highlighted. Internal triggers such as illness-related intrusive thoughts could activate these beliefs.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1352465819000535_as2\" sec-type=\"other\"><jats:title>Aim:<\/jats:title><jats:p>The present paper examines whether general dysfunctional beliefs about distressing thoughts, such as intolerance of uncertainty, over-estimation of threat, and thought-action fusion-likelihood, mediate between illness-related intrusive thoughts and health anxiety symptoms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1352465819000535_as3\" sec-type=\"other\"><jats:title>Method:<\/jats:title><jats:p>A group of participants composed of individuals with hypochondriasis (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 31; 51.5% women; mean age = 32.74 years, <jats:italic>SD<\/jats:italic> = 9.96) and community individuals (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 219; 54.3% women; mean age = 39.56 years, <jats:italic>SD<\/jats:italic> = 15.20) completed a series of questionnaires to assess illness-related intrusive thoughts (INPIE), dysfunctional beliefs about thoughts (OBSI-R), and health anxiety symptoms (SHAI).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1352465819000535_as4\" sec-type=\"other\"><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Results from a multiple parallel mediation analysis indicate that over-estimation of threat partially mediated the relationship between illness-related intrusive thoughts and health anxiety symptoms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1352465819000535_as5\" sec-type=\"other\"><jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title><jats:p>The results support the importance of the tendency to over-estimate the threat in the relationship between intrusive thoughts related to illness contents and health anxiety. 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