Assessing the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures: results from three large samples

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Quality of Life Research

• Publication date

  2014-06-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/s11136-014-0726-4PMID 24890827PMCID PMC4221492
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