I am completing my thesis on the potential moderating effect of parent social media use frequency on parent-child communication and family functioning. Literature has indicated relationships between all variables however my correlation matrix does not show any significant correlations.
However, upon running my moderation analysis in SPSS with the Process macro I have found no significant interaction effect but there is a significant effect between social media use frequency (moderator) and family functioning (DV).
Can I confirm my study found a relationship between social media use frequency and family functioning despite the correlation matrix not supporting the findings of the moderation?
Despite my hypothesis that my moderator would be significant being unsupported it would still be great for my study if social media use frequency was shown to be related to family functioning. Past studies had not measured one specific aspect of social media as I have here so this could be an opportunity for future research recommendations.
Can you elaborate more on your results? Did I understand it correctly that:
a) you had no hypothesis for the relationship of social media use frequency and family functioning
b) there were no significant zero order correlations
c) social media use was a significant predictor, when the other predictor as well as the interaction term were present?