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Table 11 Indices of general/social sources and corona-specific HL

From: Relation of corona-specific health literacy to use of and trust in information sources during the COVID-19 pandemic

 

Index 1: overall trust in «general sources»

Index 2:

overall trust in «social sources»

Index 3:

actual trust in «general sources»

Index 4:

actual trust in «social sources»

Corona-specific HL

Spearman’s Rho

Index 1: overall trust in «general sources»

Correlation coeff.

1

0.281*

0.758*

0.272*

0.383*

N

3131

3131

3078

1307

3077

Index 2: overall trust in «social sources»

Correlation coeff.

0.281*

1

0.193*

0.662*

0.165*

N

3131

3131

3078

1307

3077

Index 3: actual trust in «general sources»

Correlation coeff.

0.758*

0.193*

1

0.316*

0.336*

N

3078

3078

3078

1265

3032

Index 4: actual trust in «social sources»

Correlation coeff.

0.272*

0.662*

0.316*

1

0.235*

N

1307

1307

1265

1307

1296

Corona-specific HL

Correlation coeff.

0.383*

0.165*

0.336*

0.235*

1

N

3077

3077

3032

1296

3077

  1. * The correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-sided)