Personality and interior office design: Exploring the accuracy of visitor attributions

Abstract

Examined the relationship between office design (desk and seating arrangements) and occupant personality in a field study of 40 university faculty occupying single offices. Measures included Rotter's Internal–External Locus of Control Scale, Least Preferred Co-Worker (LPC) Scale, and the Extraversion scale from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Ss using open-desk and seating arrangements exhibited greater locus of control and extraversion, whereas interpersonal LPC orientation was associated with only open-desk placement. Implications of a linkage between office design and personality, including the veridicality of visitor attributions, are discussed. (19 ref) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)