The relationship between psychological distress and verbal fluency remains underexplored and it remains unclear regarding how age may play a role in this association given that both verbal fluency and psychological distress change with age. The aim of the current brief report is to look at how age may moderate the association between psychological distress and verbal fluency. By analyzing data from 3,3080 participants with an age range from 15 to 101 using a hierarchical regression and three simple slope regressions from the United Kingdom, this brief report found age significantly moderates the association between psychological distress and verbal fluency performance with this association insignificant in young people, negative (b=-0.053, p < 0.001, 95% C.I. [-0.070, -0.037]) in middle-aged people, and strongly negative (b=-0.136, p < 0.001, 95% C.I. [-0.169, -0.103]) in older adults. These results provided novel findings regarding the role of age in the associations between psychological distress and verbal fluency.

心理困扰和言语流畅性之间的关系仍未得到充分探索，而且考虑到言语流畅性和心理困扰都会随着年龄的增长而变化，年龄如何在这种关联中发挥作用仍不清楚。本简短报告的目的是研究年龄如何调节心理困扰和言语流畅性之间的关联。通过使用来自英国的分层回归和三个简单斜率回归分析 3,3080 名年龄在 15 岁至 101 岁之间的参与者的数据，这份简短的报告发现，年龄显着调节了心理困扰和言语流利度表现之间的关联，但这种关联并不显着。年轻人中为阴性 ( b =-0.053, p  < 0.001, 95% CI [-0.070, -0.037]) 中年人为阴性 ( b =-0.136, p  < 0.001, 95% CI [- 0.169，-0.103]）在老年人中。这些结果提供了关于年龄在心理困扰和言语流畅性之间的关联中的作用的新发现。