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Interpersonal Trust at Times of a Pandemic

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr and Dr Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität Bielefeld

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Community engagement

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

The project studies interpersonal trust during the corona pandemic. Previous research suggests that interpersonal trust may constitute an important factor of the public response to the spread of Sars-CoV-2 and may at the same time be modified by the pandemic. We draw on unique data of the SOEP-CoV study, a survey conducted between March 2020 and January 2021 in households of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the internationally leading household panel surveys. We focus both on immediate as well as long-term effects of the pandemic on interpersonal trust and thus potentials for social cooperation during the crises.