Correlation and partial correlation between pre-pandemic trust score and change in trust score, controlling for age, sex, educational attainment, political attitude and religiosity.

Values above the diagonal are Spearman’s rho values. Values below the diagonal are pairwise partial correlations controlling for the rest of variables. Values in bold are significant at P<0.05, N = 2039. Scoring system as follows: respondent age was recorded directly as the numerical value; sex was scored with a binomial system (0 = males, 1 = females); educational attainment recorded as degree level (+2), non-degree level (+1) or no qualification (0); religiosity recorded as: religious and practising (+2), religious but not practising (+1), non-religious (0). Politics is scored from -1 to +1, more positive implying more right wing based on 10 attitudinal questions (Methods).