Can people change after age 30?

Answer 1

Yes they most certainly do. Whilst it used to be the case that psychologists would believe our childhood set in stone our personality and character for our futures, many psychologists now adopt the view of 'lifespan' psychology. The previous developmental psychology view focused on how we developed throughout childhood and had an almost metaphorical 'end point' view that we were 'complete' in our late teenage years. While psychologists will still agree that childhood is extremely important in helping to shape our futures, they acknowledge that a poor or excellent childhood does not determine the definite path of our adulthood.
Whilst it is likely that we will remain quite similar to who we were as children, many factors can make us change aspects of our character, and changes can be minor or major, such as changing from a complete extravert to a complete introvert in adulthood. Major changes such as a huge change in personality are usually the result of some kind of incident or event. After being diagnosed with a serious and life threatening condition, or after surviving a fatal accident, people may become more outgoing and partake in activities they had never envisioned themselves as doing, or as the result of domestic violence, an outgoing woman may become withdrawn and introverted.
Sometimes these changes may be more spontaneous or related to milestones in life as opposed to life-changing events. For example we refer to young children and toddlers as going through the 'terrible twos' when they become more assertive and begin to gain their sense of self. Then we have the terrible teens (yep-its all terrible :-) !!! ) where adolescence kicks in and many people struggle to find who they are, and many suffer identity crises, where the flit from group to group trying to find 'who they are' and experiment with different identities (such as gothic and so on). Then if we survive that we are often quite stable in who we are for a while (providing we come across no major life-changing events!) until we are in our middle ages, and we might suffer and mid-life crises, when we are no longer young, but we arent old either! We have had our families and hopefully have a career, but did we do what we wanted to accomplish? Did we bring up our children well? Do we regret not having children if we are childless? Do we wish we'd married Tom and not Martin? Just as we think we've done all we wanted to do in life, we get to our 40's-50's and have a mid-life crises by trying to rekindle our long lost youth! Then as we become elderly, again we may experience some changes psychologically, as we come to terms with the fact that our bodies may begin to weaken and that we are inevitably nearing death.
So as you can see it is very likely that we will experience changes. Some of these may be due to our advances in age, others may be due to life-changing events. Also, we change on other factors too gradually, our intelligence is hopefully higher as adults as it was as a child, we should have more mature outlooks and the ability to cope better with adult situations (relationships, careers, child-rearing etc). When we do reach old age, it is also possible that mental functions may start to weaken, such as memory. Although this is not a definite change, but to be honest none of them are!
So as you can see, changes after 30 are pretty common, from minor to major changes in our sense of self, personality, mental ability and so on. Even though no change is definite, we are certainly not entirely stuck in whoever we 'emerge as' after childhood and we will no doubt change mildly or strongly right up until the day of our demise.
All the best!

Answer 2

The average age of life is 60+, that means that 30+ is the turning point in one's life, that means this is the best time to change.

Answer 3

people change many times during their life. Are you the same as you were when you were 13? If you're over 14 then probably not.

Answer 4

Is normaly to change after 30, but allways will stay lot of you whan you havet 25 or 23, is nature, we are all life kids, so one of us are smart kid and one of us are not smart kid :) , but we are lot the same. we change of course, but then is up to you if you wanna act like old man or still young? Do you wanna look old or do you wanna look young? is so in us all this, this is vary psiholog. things. so what you wanna be you will be. more you will be good person , more good you will look for your age. trust me and more you will be smart. and more you will think, what is good and what is not good. is nature. but do all with your head, that is why God give us brains. :)

Answer 5

Yes they can, I used to live the gay life and I no longer do. Through the power of prayer and faith in Christ we can do all things. We also have to believe in ourselves, self condemnation is the hardest battle we will ever fight and that's something I had to deal with. I now live in victory and i'm looking forward to be married and to start a family. I am 31 years old.

Answer 6

People is never too old to change. One just has to have a strong will power to pursue that change.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Course U can, never say never.
Anybody, everybody can change if they want 2 badly enough.

Answer 9

just turned 30. let ya know in a couple a years

Answer 10

I suppose so but lets face it, once set in your ways...always set in your ways. I'm sure you can think of a lot of people in your life who resemble the above saying?