Identity In Arthur Chickering's Seven Vectors

The establishment of one’s identity is the central development issue during their college years. Arthur Chickering's Seven Vectors theorize the "tasks" that students must go through while developing their identity. Vectors is a development that students can experience, but usually students or people can experience them through a series of multiple steps; and they are not necessary done in any sequential order. More like, multiple and clustered, patterns of behavior developing over a period with someone. And because this experience isn’t sequential, students move through these different “stages” at different rates, different complexities, and at different times.

The animated hit film, Finding Nemo, visualizes some of what vector is and reveals

Chickering points out that college students face a wide variety of emotions, and by accomplishing this vector, student become aware of their emotions and how to manage them. It is important for students to recognize the balance between self-awareness and self-control of their emotions and that is what the three main characters in the film Finding Nemo accomplish for themselves.

All three of the main characters: Nemo, Dory, and Marlin, find ways of managing their emotions in the film. By the end, Marlin, shows that he can give less power to his “anxiety-filled emotions” and has better interactions with small talk and meeting new people. He chooses to not “smother” his son Nemo so much, which leads to them having a healthier parental-child relationship.

If you have had the pleasure of getting to see Finding Dory in theaters this summer, you know that Dory learned to be real effective at managing her emotions, since she has a memory problem and always is lost. Her parents taught her to sing songs and make up rhymes to keep her motivated to keep moving forward when she cannot remember most things. Dory has this kind of silent and tenacious spirit in both of the movies, and she always tries talking to new people to help her keep her spirits up. She is truly resilient and effective at managing her emotions and self-awareness under her particular