What term describes a person's self-assessed happiness and life satisfaction?

• A. Gratitude
• B. Subjective Well-Being (SWB)
• C. Signature Strengths
• D. Character Strengths

Answer: (B)

Subjective well-being is the way we describe a person’s own sense of happiness and overall life satisfaction. It combines how you feel in the moment (positive and negative emotions) with how you evaluate your life as a whole (cognitive judgment of satisfaction). Because it’s based on self-report, it’s inherently about your own perspective of how happy you are and how you judge your life, not external criteria.

Gratitude is a specific positive feeling or attitude toward what you have, and it can boost well-being, but it isn’t the overall measure of happiness or life satisfaction. Signature strengths and character strengths refer to enduring personal traits, which can influence well-being but do not themselves describe how happy you are or how satisfied you feel about life.