A great term! In a conversation last year, and I were trying to find a better word for this than “agent-iness” but totally failed.
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That’s interesting—you’re helping me see that both self-efficacy and virtu fail to capture one characteristic we were trying to describe: not only having high self-efficacy but also particularly likely to *use* it, e.g. to decide to change one’s situation or to start something.
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Ah, I see what you mean—it almost shades into “NPC,” which has a deep ugliness to it.
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Yes, I’ve noticed that this quality in myself varies to a surprisingly large degree on a daily basis, along with large median shifts over longer periods. A deepening meditation practice has made this easier to notice over the course of years, though not always easy to control!
OTOH, the Authentic Happiness folks frame Virtue as "Values in Action".
Implying NoAction → NoVirtue.
But I think it's ideal to support the positive-action framing without leaning on the negative/absence side.
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A link to an instrument
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Values_in