Personality and interior office design: Exploring the accuracy of visitor attributions. |
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Authors: | McElroy, James C. Morrow, Paula C. Ackerman, Ronald J. |
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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) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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