Sara Etz Mendonça

Biographic Data

ID4777412
NAMESara Etz Mendonça
GIVEN NAMESSara Etz
FAMILY NAMEMendonça
SIGNATUREMENDONÇA S E
AFFILIATIONSWake Forest University
ORCID0000-0001-7786-8068
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The moral role models scale: Assessing connections to and functions of moral exemplars

    Elise M Dykhuis, Sara Etz Mendonça et al.ARTICLEJournal of Moral Education2025

    Recent accounts of character formation highlight the role of admiring and emulating moral role models or exemplars as a key facilitator of moral development. However, validated measures that assess the extent to which individuals affiliate with and are impacted by moral exemplars have not been developed. The present research fills this gap by developing and providing initial validity evidence for the Moral Role Models Scale (MRMS). Through explor…

  • Exemplars of purpose: Reliance on moral exemplars supports college students’ purpose in life

    Open AccessHeather M Maranges, Kate R Allman et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

  • Examining the possibilities for volitional character change in compassion and intellectual humility through a three-month online intervention

    Open AccessSara Etz Mendonça, Elise Murray Dykhuis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2023Cited by: 1References: 45

  • Commencing character: A case study of character development in college

    Michael Lamb, Elise M Dykhuis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Moral Education2022

    In the last century, higher education has witnessed a shift away from explicit character education. Although scholarship has recently reemerged on the importance of character in college, there are

  • How weird is the development of children’s gratitude in the United States? Cross-cultural comparisons

    Lia Beatriz De Lucca Freitas, Fernanda Palhares et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022Cited by: 5

    Our interest is in the development of gratitude as a moral virtue, and its variability across different cultural contexts. Given psychology's overreliance on samples collected from the United Sates, Western Europe, and Australasia, we contrasted patterns of age-related expressions of gratitude among a sample of U.S. 7- to 14-year-old children with those from same-age samples from Brazil, China, Russia, South Korea, and Turkey ( N = 2,540, 54.7% f…

  • The Development of Gratitude in the United States

    Open AccessLia O’brien, Sara Etz Mendonça et al.ARTICLECross-Cultural Research2018Cited by: 2References: 17

    Gratitude develops over the course of childhood and adolescence. However, the processes involved are largely unknown. We propose that cultural context may play an important role in gratitude development. As a whole, this special issue examines cultural influences on the development of gratitude. In this article, we focus on the development of gratitude in the United States. According to Kağıtçıbaşı, the United States would demonstrate features of…

  • The Development of Gratitude in Seven Societies: Cross-Cultural Highlights

    Open AccessSara Etz Mendonça, Elisa Avellar Merçon De Vargas et al.ARTICLECross-Cultural Research2017Cited by: 9References: 23

    This study aimed to examine children’s expression of gratitude in Brazil, China, Guatemala, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, and the United States. Participants ( N = 2,265) consisted of 7- to 14-year-olds ( M = 10.56, SD = 2.09; 54.4% girls). Using hierarchical cluster analysis, we found four clusters of gratitude expression: (a) Russia and Turkey (moderate–high expression of connective, low concrete, and moderate verbal gratitude), (b) Brazil and t…