I am a student of psychology. I am working on a research. I need a scale for measuring sense of competence in college students. Could anyone suggest/ give me a good scale for this?
Hi, you might find the MSES - Mindfulness-Based Self Efficacy Scale useful? The author provide me with permission to use then when I requested for my research.
The Parenting Sense of Competence (PSOC) scale is a commonly used measure of parental self-efficacy. The PSOC is a 17-item questionnaire which measures overall parenting sense of competence and includes two sub-scales measuring parental satisfaction and parental self-efficacy.
I kinda lean more towards the suggestion of Boshra A Arnout
even though coming up with a new scale comes with its own peculiar challenges of validatity and reliability. But notwithstanding, I believe you should consider this option. You may also want to borrow a leaf from Bandura's self-efficacy scale-- you can probably adapt it to your study objectives.
In https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1041608018300517
one of subscales in Need Satisfaction scale measures basic psychological need of competence. Though scale is for Phd I guess you can use it for students too.