JPEG is brighter than PSD

I am trialing PSE for Mac 8.  I have a photo that has a bright background, but the subjects of the photo (my family) are in shade.  In trying to "rescue" it, I brightened the entire photo so that the subjects look pretty good.  I then used the magic selection brush to brighten the faces of the subjects (this created a new layer).  Then I used the magic selection brush again to darken the now too-bright background.  The resulting file has three layers - the background, the layer to brighten the faces, and the layer that darkens the background.  The PSD looks OK (not great, but the picture wasn't much to work with anyway), and I saved it.  I then did a save as, and converted it to JPEG.
The strange thing is that when I look at the two photos (in Bridge), the JPEG is very noticeably brighter than the PSD.  It's almost as if the background darkening layer was ignored when the conversion to JPEG was done.  I tried re-doing the conversion - same result.  I made sure that all the layers were selected.  I even tried flattening the image and then saving as a JPEG - still too bright.  I am not sure whether in all this I tried quitting and restarting Elements, but I'll give that a try later today.
Has anyone ever seen this before?  Any suggestions on correcting it?

James,
You state:"I even tried flattening the image and then saving as a JPEG "
I think that JPEG format requires flattening befoe one can save it.
What is the resolution of your file?
Has the JPEG file been saved, reopened, manipulated repeatedly? There is degradation of this compression format with serial interventions.

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