Like all self-reported measures, survey-based measures of subjective wellbeing, are sensitive to measurement methodology, but reliability of subjective wellbeing measures have been found to be moderate to good.
This is one of the reasons why some economists have advocated the use of more direct measurements of well-being in those experiencing the health states through measures of subjective well-being [ 27].
Developed by Michael Argyle and Peter Hills of Oxford Brookes University, and originally published in 2002 in the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, it's one several measures of "subjective wellbeing" (aka happiness) constructed by scientific research psychologists.
According to the Washington Post, a group of experts including Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, met in December to draw up measures of "subjective well-being".
Indeed, measures of subjective economic attitudes, like consumer confidence, have shown more strength in the last two months, suggesting that the public has already "priced in" the idea that the economy is slowly returning back to normal.
Measures of subjective workload were taken using the two subscales of the NASA-TLX.
Measures of subjective criteria may not be accurately defined by decision makers.
We also included a variable to account for the well-documented association between age and measures of subjective well-being.
Measures of subjective well-being and personality were obtained two months before the 2013 Santa Maria's fire.
Total sweat rate, clothing microclimate humidity and blood lactate concentration were evaluated as the supportive measures of subjective perceptions.
It is perhaps adequately, if not specifically, captured by measures of subjective wellbeing and quality-of-life measures.
