Driving Styles and Personality Traits

This video describes the relationship between driving styles and personality traits. Overall, personality traits are related to driving style. There is no set definition of driving styles, but I'm going to use one definition that's been put for it that has four different types: careful driving style, reckless driving style, anxious driving style, and hostile angry driving style. For personality traits I like to use the five-factor model, and it's remembered by the acronym OCEAN: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. When comparing the the driving styles to the five-factor model the personality traits we see a number of associations. With the careful driving style, we typically see a high level of agreeableness, a high level of conscientiousness, and a high level of openness to experience. With the reckless driving style, we see high extraversion, low agreeableness, and low conscientiousness. With the anxious driving style, we see a higher level of neuroticism. With the angry driving style we also see a high level of neuroticism, but also a high level of extraversion, a low level of agreeableness, and a lower level of conscientiousness.