Environmental events and induction of metamotivational reversals

Three administrations of the Telic State Measure were used to test the noti on from reversal theory that environmental events may induce reversals in m etamotivational 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) confirme d that unexpected environmental events could induce reversals from the reli c to the paratelic metamotivational state.