The single-item need to belong scale.

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Leaning Out: How Negative Recruitment Experiences Shape Women’s Decisions to Compete for Executive Roles (2017, result): “We also ruled out two other ‘‘belonging’’ concerns as explanations for our results by rerunning our analyses with two single-item measures of belonging as controls (Nichols and Webster, 2013): one for the need to belong generally and one for the sense of belonging in the fictional company.”
Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research (2021, background): “Belonging has been defined and operationalised in several ways (e.g., Goodenow, 1993; Hagerty & Patusky, 1995; Malone et al., 2012; Nichols & Webster, 2013), which has enabled investigators to test whether interventions increase a sense of belonging over days, weeks, or months.”