Questing for Well‐Being at Weight Watchers: The Role of the Spiritual‐Therapeutic Model in a Support Group

By Risto Moisio, M. Beruchashvili. 2010

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Food Science, Marketing

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In Food Science

1. Rachel J. Stephenson
2. Paul W. Ballantine
3. K. Hamilton
4. Leighanne Higgins

In Marketing

1. R. Schindler
2. Paul W. Ballantine
3. S. Grier
4. K. Hamilton
5. George R. Milne
6. Leighanne Higgins
7. David Mick

Citations in the corpus

• Mindfulness: Its Transformative Potential for Consumer, Societal, and Environmental Well-Being (2016, background): “Support groups like Weight Watchers promote accountability and therapeutic benefits to their members in their journey of weight loss (Moisio and Beruchashvili 2010).”
• Help me, I'm fat! Social support in online weight loss networks (2011, background): “More recently, Moisio and Beruchashvili (2010) described weekly Weight Watchers support groups as being both a spiritual and therapeutic companion, which gave them an aura of indispensability in members’ lives.”
• Therapeutic Servicescapes and Market-Mediated Performances of Emotional Suffering (2019, background): “…on the confrontation of emotional suffering through therapeutic communities prioritizes the verbal, and reveals that the sharing of emotional stories within both face-toface and web-based support groups is a conduit toward improved well-being (Moisio and Beruchashvili 2010; Tian et al. 2014).”