Abstract: According to the present invention, in a driving method for an AC type discharge display device having one pair of discharge electrodes which are opposite to each other to cross through a discharge gas and each of which is constituted by a plurality of line-shaped electrodes, the plurality of line-shaped electrodes of at least one discharge electrode of the one pair of discharge electrodes being covered with a dielectric layer, an AC discharge keeping pulse Vxy to be applied across one pair of discharge electrodes is constituted by a first pulse and a second pulse having a polarity reverse to the polarity of the first pulse and generated next to the first pulse, the first pulse is made a narrow-width pulse having a pulse width set within a time in which a priming effect of charged particles or metastable atoms generated by the first pulse is kept in a discharge space, the second pulse is made a wide-width pulse which is generated before the priming effect obtained by the first pulse is disappeared and within