from: WashingtonPost.com
THE QUESTION People who yearn for a more youthful appearance sometimes opt for a facelift to help achieve that. Do they feel better about themselves after this cosmetic surgery?
THIS STUDY involved 59 people, mostly women (average age, 58) who had elected to have facelift surgery. Before the surgery and six months after, they completed a standardized survey that evaluated their self-esteem. After the facelift, the participants indicated that they appeared to be about nine years younger, on average.
However, taken as a group, their average self-esteem ratings overall did not change, despite their perception of a more youthful appearance. Ratings on the self-esteem scale improved for about 48 percent of the group, declined for 30 percent and stayed the same for 22 percent. Self-esteem generally improved among those who had low self-esteem before the facelift, but self-esteem dropped among people who had high self-esteem before the surgery. It remained essentially unchanged among those with average self-esteem pre-surgery.
See: https://goo.gl/gQzO4I
The study appeared in the current issue of the journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery
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