Driving Styles. “The ways drivers choose to drive or to their habitual driving mode”
(Taubman-Ben-Ari, Mikulincer, & Gillath, 2005). The four driving styles, as defined by the
multidimensional driving style inventory (MDSI) are reckless and careless driving style, anxious
driving style, angry and hostile driving style, and patient and careful driving style. Because the
present study examined reckless driving behavior and its relationship to alcoholism and
antisocial alcoholism, only the reckless and angry driving styles are pertinent. However, the idea
that driving behaviors can be categorically differentiated, and that these styles in parents can
affect driving behaviors in children (Taubman-Ben-Ari, Mikulincer, & Gillath, 2005) provides
empirical precedent for the hypotheses of the present study.