The phrase "as a protective buffer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that serves to shield or safeguard against potential harm or negative effects.
Example: "The new policy was implemented as a protective buffer against economic downturns."
Alternatives: "as a safeguard" or "as a shield".
This difference suggests that high positive emotions act as a protective buffer.
Their friendship begins when Mari, who is contemptuous of their boy-crazy peers, inserts herself as a protective buffer between Yolanda and her friends.
As well as being home to endangered species including the sun bear and clouded leopard, the peat swamps acted as a protective buffer during the 2004 tsunami.
In Gram-negative bacteria, the periplasm functions as a protective buffer zone against cytotoxic substances from the extracellular environment (Li et al. 2015).
Other council members were naïve (or in some cases grandiose) enough to believe that psychologists' participation in the interrogations could serve as a protective buffer against torture.
To counter powerful neighbors such as the Kingdom of Dali (934 1253), the Song made alliances with tribal groups in southwest China which served as a protective buffer between their borders and Dali's.
Beneath the glass domes are five climatic zones -- rain forest, desert, savanna, ocean and intensive agriculture -- meant to mimic the Earth's diversity and be a protective buffer for the eight Biospherians., as they call themselves.
While the new report hailed its findings as proof that Italy's traditional family-based social fabric provides a protective buffer against economic hardship, others said the data was a warning.
Taken together, these studies suggest self-compassion may be a resource for resiliency and a protective buffer against both internal and external criticism.
This breakthrough research demonstrated not only that willpower can be learned but also that it seems to be "a protective buffer against the development of all kinds of vulnerabilities later in life," as Mischel concluded, thereby implying that self-control is key to both academic and personal success.
Children and dogs are highly social, so that need to be part of the group almost acts like a protective buffer, whereas a cat would pack its bags and leave".
