Abstract

The purpose of the study is to find out the psychological characteristics of drunk drivers and alcoholic drunk drivers and the seriousness of drinking driving, and thus to make a effective reducing plan and to develop an effective remedial program for the drunk drivers. The ANCOVA was performed to test hypothesis about the personality characteristics, the perceived environments, and the cognitive and behavioral factors, controling the demographic variables. The results of the study are as follows: First, the drunk drivers tend to be more careless and impulsive, and showed problematic drinking and deviant behaviors than the non-drunk drivers. They reported that their peers also had a more neglected attitudes about drinking driving than those of the non-dunk drivers. Second, the 72.7% of drunk drivers were classified as alcoholic based on MAST. Third, non-drunk drivers, non-alcoholic drunk drivers, alcoholic drunk drivers were evaluated based on personality traits, perceived environment, cognitive, factors, on behavioral factors. The results demonstrated that the alcoholic drunk drivers tend to be more impulsive, deviant, isolated, sarcastic, independent-minded than non-alcoholic drivers. Alcoholic drunk driver`s peers tended to ignore the risky consequences of drinking driving, and did frequently drinking driving. In addition, the alcoholic drunk drivers tend to exhibit a very serious problematic drinking behaviors, and showed antisocial behaviors such as traffic violations. Finally, The step-wise regression analysis demonstrated that the deviant behaviors such as traffic violation was the most important variable explaining and related to drinking driving. The problematic drinking, peer`s attitudes about drinking driving, perceived possibility of having an accident and being arrested for drinking driving were significant variables explaining for drinking driving. According to the results, the development of effective remedial education program designed to deal with drunk drivers is very important and necessary as well as a legal and institutional preparation.