Biomedical subjects

L Brandeberry

Publications and source records attributed to L Brandeberry.

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PubMed1990

A preliminary comparison of healthy elderly and young adults on the SUNYA Revision of the Psychosomatic Symptom Checklist.

Elderly (n = 30) and young (n = 30) subjects, equated in terms of general physical health, education and depression, were compared in terms of Total, Frequency and Intensity scores on the psychosomatic symptom checklist (PSC). Elderly subjects scored significantly lower than young subjects for both PSC Total and PSC Intensity scores. These results call into question the practice of aggregating PSC data from age heterogeneous samples and indicate the importance of reporting all three PSC scores.

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PubMed1989

Age differences in body consciousness.

Physical changes associated with the aging process have both private and public components, and this study investigated the degree to which elderly persons attend to these changes. Sixty subjects, elderly (n = 30) and young (n = 30), equated in terms of physical health, education, and depression, were compared on measures of private body consciousness, public body consciousness, and body competence. Results indicated that healthy elderly persons are more conscious of their external physical appearance and are more positive in their self-evaluations of body competence than are young subjects.

Adolescent↗