“…neuroticism, somatosensory amplification and illness cognition. In a community sample Barenbrügge, Glöckner-Rist, and Rist (2013) identified a strong association between positive and negative metacognitions and health anxiety. Clinically a number of studies have also identified that a change in metacognition is associated with symptom reduction in both OCD and health anxiety, when metacognition is targeted directly (Fisher & Wells, 2008;Rees & van Koesveld, 2008;Bailey & Wells, 2014) and not targeted directly (Buwalda, Bouman, & Van Duijn, 2008;Solem, Håland, Vogel, Hansen, & Wells, 2009).…”