Table 4.
Spearman’s correlation matrix of covariates.
| High trust for COVID-19 information: CDC | High trust for COVID-19 information: Whitehouse | High trust for COVID-19 information: Johns Hopkins University | High trust for COVID-19 information: Health Departments | High trust for COVID-19 information: Major news outlets | Political conservativism | Spending less time around people | Worried about getting COVID-19 | Belief China purposely spread COVID-19 | High COVID-19 skepticism | Social norms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High trust for COVID-19 information: CDC | 1.00 | 0.118** | 0.463** | 0.439** | 0.259** | −0.034 | 0.190** | 0.130** | −0.200** | −0.164** | 0.036 |
| High trust for COVID-19 information: Whitehouse | 1.00 | 0.017 | 0.111* | −0.099* | 0.491** | −0.002 | −0.051 | −0.318** | 0.230** | −0.004 | |
| High trust for COVID-19 information: JHU | 1.00 | 0.424** | 0.267** | −0.119** | 0.164** | 0.188** | −0.171** | −0.251** | 0.037 | ||
| High trust for COVID-19 information: Health Department | 1.00 | 0.280** | −0.073 | 0.148** | −0.099* | −0.117** | −0.144** | −0.055 | |||
| High trust for COVID-19 information: major news outlets | 1.00 | −0.203** | 0.147** | 0.161** | −0.236** | −0.207** | 0.022 | ||||
| Political conservatism | 1.00 | 0.073 | −0.221** | 0.425** | 0.309** | −0.017 | |||||
| Spending less time around other people | 1.00 | 0.199** | 0.025 | −0.194** | −0.123** | ||||||
| Worried about getting COVID-19 | 1.00 | −0.162** | −0.407** | 0.022 | |||||||
| Belief China purposely spread COVID-19 | 1.00 | 0.394** | 0.124** | ||||||||
| High COVID-19 skepticism | 1.00 | 0.257** | |||||||||
| Social norms | 1.00 |