An exerciser that is anxious and not confident about their ability to complete an exercise is experiencing a low amount of:

• A. Self-awareness
• B. Self-centeredness
• C. Self-efficacy
• D. Self-absorption

Answer: (C)

The idea here centers on belief in your own ability to perform a task. When an exerciser feels anxious and lacks confidence about finishing the exercise, they have low self-efficacy for that task. This belief strongly influences how much effort they’re willing to put in, how persistently they’ll work through challenges, and whether they’ll even start or complete the exercise. In practice, higher self-efficacy leads to more motivation, greater persistence, and better adherence because the person expects they can succeed and can manage difficulties as they arise.

Self-awareness is about recognizing what you’re feeling or thinking, not about how capable you are of performing the exercise. Self-centeredness and self-absorption describe focusing attention on oneself in a way that’s more about ego than about confidence in task performance. So the scenario most clearly reflects low self-efficacy.