Chickering's theory of identity development outlines 7 vectors that students progress through during college. The 7 vectors are developing competence, managing emotions, moving through autonomy toward interdependence, developing mature interpersonal relationships, establishing identity, developing purpose, and developing integrity. Each vector involves developing skills, attitudes, or values such as intellectual competence, emotional independence, tolerance for others, and personalizing one's own values.

1. Chickering's theory
of identity development

2. 7 Vectors
• Developing Competence
• Managing Emotions
• Moving through
Autonomy toward
Interdependence
• Developing Mature Interpersonal
relationships
• Establishing Identity
• Developing Purpose
• Developing Integrity
Arthur Chickering

3. Developing Competence
 Intellectual competence
 Physical and manual skills
 Interpersonal competence

4. Managing Emotions
Students develop the ability to recognize
and accept emotions, appropriately express
and control them, and learn to act on feelings
in a responsible manner.

5. Moving through Autonomy toward
Interdependence Developing Mature
 Emotional Independence
 Instrumental Independence

6. Developing Mature
Interpersonal relationships
 Tolerance, acceptance, appreciation of
differences
 Capacity for intimacy in relationships

7. Establishing Identity
Acceptance and comfort of personal issues
 body and appearance
 gender identity and sexual orientation
 sense of self (social, historical, and cultural)

8. Establishing Identity

9. Developing Purpose
 Strong and meaningful commitment to specific
personal interests and activities.
 Lifestyle and family influences affect the
decision-making and goal-setting processes
involved in developing purpose.

10. Developing Integrity
 Humanizing Values
 Personalizing Values
 Developing Congruence

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