You Have a Meeting with Three Other Researchers for the Purpose

Multiple Choice

You have a meeting with three other researchers for the purpose of deciding how to operationalize (i.e. measure) happiness. You are unsure what the best approach is but the other three people each have very strong, and differing, opinions. The third researcher is of the opinion all that matters is whether whatever you choose has strong predictive relationships with the outcome measures that we expect to be associated with happiness (e.g. health, prosperity, etc.) .

A) Test-retest reliability
B) interjudge reliability
C) Construct validity
D) Content validity
E) Criterion-related validity