Griffiths six components

• salience

  the behaviour takes over a wide range of life activities e.g friends, partner, job
• euphoria

  experience from behaviour e.g. the buzz, the rush you get from the addiction
• tolerance

  need to increase behaviour to feel the same feeling
• withdrawal

  unpleasant feelings when deprived of the feeling from the addiction
• conflict

  conflict with others who don't share the same salience, tends to be conflict with their partner.
• relapse

  hard to give up addictive behaviour, but easy to take up again
• cognitive dissonance - where an individuals attitudes and behaviours conflict with eachother

  this can lead to the individual changing either their attitude or behaviour to lower levels of discomfort and to restore balance