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

✍ Scribed by Cheung, Felix; Lucas, Richard E.

Book ID: 125368136
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 228 KB
Volume: 23
Category: Article
ISSN: 0962-9343
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-014-0726-4

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