Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Is depression strongly associated with alexithymia in the general population?
Answer: These results suggest that alexithymia has a close relationship to depression in the general population. The impact of social factors on alexithymia may be primarily explained by depression. Depression must be taken into account as a confounding factor when studying alexithymia in general populations due to the strong association between alexithymia and depression.
Output (English): yes