Environmental events and induction of metamotivational reversals

Three administrations of the Telic State Measure were used to test the notion from reversal theory that environmental events may induce reversals in metamotivational state. Significant changes in scores on Telic State Measure items from three different groups of students experiencing three different environmental events and one student control group (total N=96) confirmed that unexpected environmental events could induce reversals from the telic to the paratelic metamotivational state.