Principia

Principia CC — Competence

Principia (generated) · 2026 · Competence — the felt sense of effectiveness and mastery in one's work

Principia CC Instrument · license CC0-1.0 · calibration pending
L1-generated (PRN-157): LLM-authored from construct + design rules + public-domain exemplars; passed the item-quality linter (≥B) + anti-derivative novelty gate. NOT yet empirically calibrated (PRN-158). Design-quality gated, not yet empirically validated — reliability and validity are earned from data. Pilot it via POST /api/v1/methods/item-calibration to calibrate.

Anatomy

Principia CC— CompetenceI feel capable in handling my w…I often doubt my ability to suc…I am confident in my skills to …I struggle to complete my tasks…I believe I can learn new skill…Competence (basic psychologicalneed satisfaction for competence)containsmeasuresitems
Fig. Principia CC — Competence → its items → the construct(s) they measure. Click a construct to follow it.

Measures this construct

Items

Each item shows its design grade (item-quality linter) and keying. Discrimination/difficulty appear once the instrument is calibrated on pilot data.

  1. I feel capable in handling my work tasks. grade A (positive-keyed)
  2. I often doubt my ability to succeed at work. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  3. I am confident in my skills to achieve goals. grade A (positive-keyed)
  4. I struggle to complete my tasks effectively. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  5. I believe I can learn new skills related to my work. grade A (positive-keyed)
  6. I frequently feel overwhelmed by my responsibilities. grade B (reverse-keyed)
  7. I can make decisions that lead to good outcomes at work. grade A (positive-keyed)
  8. I find it hard to keep up with my work demands. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  9. I trust my judgment when solving work problems. grade A (positive-keyed)
  10. I feel ineffective compared to my colleagues. grade A (reverse-keyed)

Reliability & validity

Reliability
Not recorded
Validity
Not recorded

Items measuring this instrument

No canonical survey items linked to this instrument yet. Item-level dedup (PRN-050) derives canonical items from instruments that carry sample_items[]; coverage fills as the curator enriches instrument rows with item text.

Cited in

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