Hello,

There are a few things that need to be cleared up with regard to your data and findings, but I'll try to be of help. First, that your moderator and IV are correlated is not necessarily problematic. In fact, one might expect that severity of childhood trauma would be correlated with perceived family social support. That said, I'd expect a negative correlation, unless one of the scales is reversed.

As far as spurious results go, your sample size and make-up are the biggest determinants. How many participants do you have in your study, and how did you draw this sample? 

You wrote that, when social support is high, the correlation between severity of childhood traumas and somatosensory amplification is high. However, in the same sentence, you later observe that, when social support is high, the relationship between the IV and DV is not significant. Which is it?

Good luck!

Thank you so much Paul, I made a mistake. I should edit the sentence like that " When the level of social support is "low" , the relationship between IV and DV İS moderate (b= .44), when the level of social support is "0"  the relationship between IV and DV is still significant but lower (b= .23), and when the level of social support is high, the relationship is not significant btw IV and DV". The sample consists of individuals with chronic pain in clinical settings, and sample size is 104. And yes, they are negatively correlated.