Several avenues of research are recommended to develop an accurate, meaningful, and testable theory of the self-concept over time. The data reviewed in this paper suggest that: (i) self-evaluation generally becomes more favorable through the life-span (ii) self-evaluation is represented by a "moving baseline" from which situational fluctuations emerge (iii) self-concept is characterized by both stability and change over the life course and (iv) environmental stability plays an important role in self-concept stability. Self-concept is made up of ones self-schemas, and interacts with self-esteem, self-knowledge, and the social self to form the self as a whole. Self-concept is a structural product of reflexive activity, but it is also susceptible to change as the individual encounters new roles, situations, and life transitions. Such efforts assume that data obtained through these methods can be generalized to other situations in the person's life, even to subsequent years or stages in the life course.
Although theoretical attention has been devoted to the situational variability of the self-concept, empirical investigations continue to rely on one-shot methodologies.
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