ABSTRACT
Starting from the premise that it would be useful to consider wellbeing at all as a policy outcome, or something to strive for at least, it would seem a natural development to think about how this is measured. Such endeavours have necessarily been challenging, as, to measure wellbeing, one must presumably have a strong mental construct of what wellbeing is. Strikingly, Huppert (2014) observes, ‘the plethora of different approaches to identifying the key components of well-being, and the huge number and variety of available scales, can cause confusion for investigators who wish to establish whether their intervention has increased well-being.’
