Does a Person's Self Concept Change?

Does a person's self-concept typically change, or does it mostly stay the same? ... The self-concept is usually malleable, depending on a person's current situation and depending on what other people are nearby. . The self-concept remains constant for most people most of the time.

Can self-concept change how?

That is, the self-concept is more likely to change by internalizing public behavior than by internalizing behavior that is identical but lacks the interpersonal context. The self-concept change extends even to behavioral changes and occurs even when participants are unaware of being observed.

Is self-concept resistant to change?

An empirically well-documented fact about the self-concept is that it possesses a curious resistance to change in the face of apparently disconfirming facts (Baumeister, 1995; Ossorio, 1978; Swann, 1992).