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To our knowledge, whether the number of choices presented to the users affects their uptake and experiences and poses negative consequences (ie, not choosing any exercises, choice dissatisfaction) for users, especially those experiencing anxiety and depressive symptoms or unpleasant state emotions, has not been empirically investigated.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n This study investigated the impact of choice set size on practice decisions, completion, satisfaction, and subjective experiences, as well as potential moderators including depression and anxiety symptoms, state emotions, and motivational and decisional attributes on these choice outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n Participants were recruited through university mass email and social media, and 652 participants were included in our analyses. Participants completed questions regarding anxiety and depressive symptoms, state emotions, and other psychological attributes. Then, they were randomly assigned to 1-choice, 4-choice, and 16-choice conditions, in which they may choose a self-care activity to practice or decide not to practice. Finally, they completed questions regarding completion, satisfaction, engagement, attitude, and perceived improvement in psychological state.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n Presenting multiple choices resulted in a higher likelihood of practice (odds ratio 3.12, 95% CI 2.08 to 4.67 and 3.83, 95% CI 2.55 to 5.76;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n <.001) and better decision satisfaction (16-choice vs 1-choice:\n d<\/jats:italic>\n =0.36, 95% CI 0.17 to 0.56,\n P<\/jats:italic>\n <.001; 4-choice vs 1-choice:\n d<\/jats:italic>\n =0.24, 95% CI 0.05 to 0.43,\n P<\/jats:italic>\n =.03) compared with presenting with a single choice. Tentative evidence indicates anxiety symptoms and state emotions were meaningful moderators. Specifically, for individuals with more anxiety symptoms and intense negative emotions, presenting a larger choice set (16 choices) resulted in more positive chosen exercise satisfaction, better attitudes toward chosen activity, and higher perceived improvement in mental health state after the activity, when compared with presenting with smaller choice sets (anxiety:\n \u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n =\u22120.38, 95% CI \u22120.69 to \u22120.06 to \u22120.51, 95% CI \u22120.84 to \u22120.18; state emotions:\n \u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n =\u22120.31, 95% CI \u22120.66 to 0.03 to \u22120.60, 95% CI \u22120.92 to \u22120.28). No evidence was found for the moderating effect of motivational and decisional attributes.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n The moderation results were contradictory to prior research and our expectation that a larger choice set may result in worse outcomes than a smaller choice set for people who were experiencing higher levels of psychological distress. We speculated that a possible reason for these findings may be that people with more anxiety symptoms and unpleasant emotions may have a stronger need to reduce these uncomfortable symptoms and emotions, and when presented with more choices on self-care activities, there may be a higher possibility that these self-care activities can address their distress.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.2196\/71165","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,30]],"date-time":"2025-10-30T10:35:20Z","timestamp":1761820520000},"page":"e71165-e71165","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Effects of Choice Set Sizes and Moderations of Anxiety and State Emotions on Mental Health Self-Care Uptake, Engagement, and User Experience: Experimental Study"],"prefix":"10.2196","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5835-0981","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Siu Kit","family":"Yeung","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7326-4125","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Florence H T","family":"Leung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-5868-883X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jason C M","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-7740-0130","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriel Man Hin","family":"Cheung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-9192-5064","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ching Wan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9714-7847","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Winnie W S","family":"Mak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1010","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,15]]},"reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"R1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1007\/s00146-021-01322-w","article-title":"Recommender systems for mental health apps: advantages and ethical challenges","volume":"38","author":"Valentine","journal-title":"AI Soc"},{"issue":"2","key":"R2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"234","DOI":"10.1007\/s41347-022-00245-7","article-title":"Therapeutic activities as a link between program usage and clinical outcomes in digital mental health interventions: a proposed research framework","volume":"7","author":"Baumel","journal-title":"J Technol Behav Sci"},{"issue":"1","key":"R3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"143","DOI":"10.1002\/jcpy.1325","article-title":"Choice freedom","volume":"33","author":"Botti","journal-title":"J Consum Psychol"},{"issue":"2","key":"R4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"333","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jcps.2014.08.002","article-title":"Choice overload: a conceptual review and meta\u2010analysis","volume":"25","author":"Chernev","journal-title":"J Consum Psychol"},{"issue":"1290359","key":"R5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2024.1290359","article-title":"On the advantages and disadvantages of choice: future research directions in choice overload and its moderators","volume":"15","author":"Misuraca","journal-title":"Front Psychol"},{"issue":"1","key":"R6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/ijcs.12996","article-title":"Charting the evolution of research on the paradoxes in consumer choice\u2014systematic review and future research agenda","volume":"48","author":"Sharma","journal-title":"Int J Consumer Studies"},{"issue":"2","key":"R7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/ijcs.13029","article-title":"Over two decades of research on choice overload: an overview and research agenda","volume":"48","author":"Jacob","journal-title":"Int J Consumer Studies"},{"key":"R8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/2055207619832767","article-title":"Should or could? 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