Competence refers to:

• A. Belonging to a group
• B. Knowing you are able to do something
• C. Being autonomous
• D. Feeling amotivated

Answer: (B)

Competence is about feeling capable and effective in what you’re doing. It’s the sense that you have the skills to perform tasks well, master challenges, and achieve goals. When you believe you can successfully apply a technique or solve a clinical problem, you’re more motivated to put in effort, practice, and persist through difficulties. In physical therapy practice, this translates to confidence in delivering interventions, adapting plans as needed, and learning new skills to help patients.

This is the best fit because it directly refers to that internal sense of capability. The other ideas involve belonging to a group (social connection), being autonomous (self-direction), or a lack of motivation (amotivation), none of which directly describe feeling capable in performing tasks.