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Original Article

Modesty Doesn’t Become Me

Narcissism and the Big Five among Male and Female Candidates for the Big Brother TV Show

Published Online:November 22, 2016https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000209

Abstract

Abstract. The objective of this study is to compare the Big Five of personality and the narcissism levels between candidates who auditioned for the show and control individuals, who had no intention to participate in a reality TV show. Ninety-two candidates who auditioned for the show and 94 control individuals who had no intention to do so filled in a demographic questionnaire, Costa and McCrae’s (1992) NEO-FFI-R, and Raskin and Hall’s (1981) Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI). The candidates were significantly less agreeable and neurotic, but more extroverted, conscientious, and narcissistic, than noncandidates. Gender personality differences between candidates and noncandidates are also presented. Reality TV shows are one of the modalities of the narcissistic culture, through which narcissistic individuals may channel their need for admiration.

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