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Explores the community involvement process through a telephone survey of 400 adult Iowans. Indicates that keeping up with local news and getting together with other people are necessary to the process. Concludes that some people become involved because of their specific ideas for change, whereas others hope good ideas will result from involvement. (SG)

Analyzes the findings of a survey of adult residents of Iowa concerning a structural equation model linking community attachment and involvement to newspaper use, local television news use, age, education, number of children in the home, localism and population density. Factors that influence respondents to read community newspapers; Affective community attachment and active involvement.