8,456 responses from 1,208 respondents to 7 items.
One of 10 tables from the same source; this one measures Purpose in life (EPIL). The others are listed under Related tables.
| Description | Existential Scale of the Purpose in Life Questionnaire (7 items, 1-7) for 1,208 trauma-exposed adults in Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya (online survey). |
|---|---|
| Reference | Mutuyimana, C., & Maercker, A. (2026). Eastern African expressions of suffering: A new Cultural Scripts of Trauma Inventory. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0358482 |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0358482 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://zenodo.org/records/20385027 |
| Responses | 8,456 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 1,208 |
| Items | 7 |
| Response categories | 7 |
| Responses per respondent | 7 |
| Responses per item | 1,208 |
| Density | 1 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Adult (18+) |
|---|---|
| sample | Internet-based, Targeted/specific |
| construct type | Affective/mental health |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | eng, kin, swa |
| construct name | Purpose in life (EPIL) |
This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, mutuyimana_2026_csti.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.
| Column | What it is | Source column |
|---|---|---|
| IRW standard columns | ||
id | IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task). | made in the build script |
item | IRW standard Item identifier. | made in the build script |
resp | IRW standard Response value. | made in the build script |
| Respondent covariates | ||
cov_birth_year | Covariate | Year_of_birth |
cov_country | Covariate | Country |
cov_education | Covariate | Education_level |
cov_gender | Covariate | Gender |
cov_income | Covariate | Monthly_income |
cov_location | Covariate | Location |
cov_marital | Covariate | Marital_status |
cov_occupation | Covariate | Occupation |
cov_religion | Covariate | Religion |
cov_trauma_time | Covariate | TETime |
cov_trauma_type | Covariate | Traumatic_exposure |
What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.
Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("mutuyimana_2026_epil")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("mutuyimana_2026_epil")
@article{Mutuyimana_2026, title={Eastern African expressions of suffering: A new Cultural Scripts of Trauma Inventory}, volume={21}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0358482}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0358482}, number={9}, journal={PLOS One}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Mutuyimana, Celestin and Maercker, Andreas}, editor={Schalinski, Inga}, year={2026}, month=Sept, pages={e0358482} }
| IRW version | v584 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_6 v5.11 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/qahq-j855 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v5.11 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v44.0 |