Cannot reference "X" before supertype constructor has been called, where x is a final variable

Consider the following Java class declaration:

public class Test {

    private final int defaultValue = 10;
    private int var;

    public Test() {
        this(defaultValue);    // <-- Compiler error: cannot reference defaultValue before supertype constructor has been called.
    }

    public Test(int i) {
        var = i;
    }
}

The code will not compile, with the compiler complaining about the line I've highlighted above. Why is this error happening and what's the best workaround?