Intervention site coalition leaders' perceptions of the importance of various motives for participation in the study are presented in Table 3 (based on data from the 2015 Ownership and Partnership Survey). All of the motives were endorsed (either “strongly agree” or “agree”) by the majority of the intervention site coalition coordinators; consequently, we use “strongly agree” versus all other responses (“agree,” “neither agree nor disagree,” “disagree,” and “strongly disagree”) as the contrast of primary interest. A number of important patterns are observed in these data. First, local coalition leaders—perhaps not surprisingly—are most likely to strongly endorse what might be called (nonpejoratively) “parochial” motives—including direct benefit to one's community with respect to development and implementation of effective strategies (strongly agreed to by nine out of ten respondents) and learning whether a comprehensive approach to the problem is effective in one's own community (strongly agreed to by eight out of ten respondents). The parallel items for all of the participating intervention communities were strongly endorsed by far fewer of the respondents (four out of ten strongly agreed with wanting all of the
