The paper investigates the causal relationship between the trust in institutions and compliance with measures introduced to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in Slovakia. In addition, the impact of socio-economic characteristics on compliance with introduced measures was analysed. Data were obtained from a survey carried out by the Slovak Academy of Sciences on a representative sample of the Slovak population of 1,000 respondents. To derive the causal relationship between institutional trust and compliance behaviour, a probit regression model was used. Findings suggest that trust in public institutions helps to increase compliance with social distancing. In addition, some socio-economic characteristics such as employment status, age or whether individuals felt endangered by COVID-19 had a positive and statistically significant effect on compliance with measures used to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Institutional trust did not have a statistically significant effect on compliance with face-covering measures.

本文调查了机构信任与遵从措施之间的因果关系，这些措施旨在减缓新型冠状病毒COVID-19在斯洛伐克的传播。此外，分析了社会经济特征对采取新措施的影响。数据是从斯洛伐克科学院针对1000名受访者的斯洛伐克人口代表性样本进行的调查中获得的。为了得出机构信任与合规行为之间的因果关系，使用了概率回归模型。研究结果表明，对公共机构的信任有助于提高对社会疏远的依从性。此外，还有一些社会经济特征，例如就业状况，年龄或个人是否感到受到COVID-19的威胁对采用减慢COVID-19病毒传播的措施的依从性有积极的和统计学上的显着影响。机构信任对于遵守遮脸措施没有统计学上的显着影响。