If you ever auditioned for anything and you were rejected because you "lacked the star quality/x-factor" to make it into showbiz, then it may actually mean that you just simply have to be more vain.

Recently, Los Angeles psychologists Mark Young and Drew Pinsky have compiled proof that, yes, celebrities do think that they're better than the rest of us, and that it may just be that which has propelled them into stardom in the first place.

After having conducted a survey among 200 celebrities via Pinsky's radio show, they've come up with the results showing that what makes celebs different would be "their extreme levels of self love and their compulsive need for public attention".

According to the survey, dubbed as "Narcissism Personality Inventory", celebrity women tend to be "far more narcissistic than men and up to a third are more manipulative and vain about their appearance than the typical woman in the street", that they do believe that they deserve the compliments that they get, and that they do insist on being respected at all times.

However, he does point out that several of Hollywood's "fast set" such as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears may be digging themselves into trouble. To quote:

They are going further and further. One of these Hollywood party girls is going to be dead in five years' time.

We are seeing a new type of celebrity who is famous just for being famous, without a foundation of skills, and this puts the pressure on them to perform ever more outrageously to feed their need for attention.

On the other hand, they have also pointed out that there is also a marked difference between various types of celebrities, since "the more real-life skills they have, such as musicians, the less narcissistic they are".

So. How about those guitar lessons?