Lighting-Related Behaviour of Female Office Users: An Exploratory Analysis Across CliftonStrengths Domains

Lighting-related behaviour in shared workplaces involves not only responses to environmental conditions but also self-reported choices, communication, and interaction with other occupants. This exploratory study examined lighting-related behaviour among female office users in Poland in relation to the four Gallup CliftonStrengths domains. A convenience sample of 101 female respondents completed an online questionnaire addressing the reported basis for lighting-related choices, the implementation of lighting preferences in shared workplaces, the communication of lighting needs, the preference for similar versus different lighting solutions, and the perceived retrospective change in lighting-related behaviour. Respondents were classified by the domain of their first-ranked CliftonStrengths talent theme, and an alternative classification based on the complete Top 5 profile was used for sensitivity analysis. Associations were evaluated using the Fisher–Freeman–Halton exact test, with Cramér’s V reported as an effect-size measure. Descriptively, most respondents reported relying primarily on intuition, communicating lighting needs directly with colleagues, making lighting changes after obtaining the consent of other occupants, and preferring solutions similar to the existing lighting. Under the primary classification, an association was identified between the CliftonStrengths domain and the reported basis of lighting-related choices (p = 0.046). In contrast, the other three primary outcomes were not statistically significant. However, this association was not reproduced under the alternative Top-5-based classification (p = 0.212), indicating sensitivity to the classification procedure. The findings should therefore be interpreted as exploratory and hypothesis-generating rather than as evidence of stable domain-specific behavioural mechanisms. Larger and more diverse samples are required to determine whether the observed patterns are reproducible.