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

By F. Cheung, Richard E. Lucas. Quality of Life Research, 2014

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Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being (2018, neutral): “70), and Cheung and Lucas (2014) used two large datasets to compare the validity of single-item to multiple-item life satisfaction measures.”
Organizational public value and employee life satisfaction: the mediating roles of work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior (2020, result): “Even if previous research (e.g. Cheung & Lucas, 2014; Jovanović, 2016) confirms that our measure is highly valid and strongly associated with multifaceted life satisfaction scales, future investigations should take into account that life satisfaction is multidimensional and thus use multifaceted…”
Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings (2018, background): “Similar items have been included in numerous large-scale social surveys (cf. Veenhoven, 2009) and have shown satisfactory reliability (e.g., Lucas & Donnellan, 2012) and validity (Cheung & Lucas, 2014; Oswald & Wu, 2010; Sandvik, Diener, & Seidlitz, 1993).”
Can prosocial motivation harm entrepreneurs' subjective well-being? (2019, methodology): “Following Baron et al. (2016), stress was measured using the 10-item perceived stress scale (PSS) adapted from the work by Cohen and his colleagues (Cohen et al., 1983; Cohen and Williamson, 1988).”