Guided by the Risk and Resilience Model, the present study aims to generate hypotheses by investigating a wide range of variables that might buffer the association between peer victimization and internalizing symptoms from a convenience sample of African American adolescents in four neighborhoods in Chicago’s Southside. Measures for the study included internalizing symptoms, peer victimization, four protective factors (parental closeness, teacher’s care, religiosity, and positive future orientation) and covariates (age, sex, and government assistance). Controlling for the covariates, a series of multivariate regression analyses were conducted to explore the direct effects of peer victimization and internalizing symptoms and the interaction between peer victimization and the four protective factors. The study found that peer victimization was directly associated with internalizing symptoms. In terms of the interactions, the study found that parental closeness moderated the association between peer victimization and internalizing symptoms. The findings show that parental closeness is an important protective factor that needs to be considered in the research hypotheses. The findings specifically demonstrated the importance of developing hypotheses to test whether parental closeness protects adolescents from internalizing symptoms linked to peer victimization.

在风险和适应力模型的指导下，本研究旨在通过研究广泛的变量来产生假设，这些变量可能会缓冲同伴受害与内部症状之间的关联，这些变量来自芝加哥南边四个街区的非洲裔美国青少年便利样本。该研究的措施包括内化症状，同伴受害，四个保护因素（父母亲，老师的照顾，宗教信仰和积极的未来取向）和协变量（年龄，性别和政府援助）。控制协变量，进行了一系列多元回归分析，以探讨同伴受害和内在症状的直接影响以及同伴受害与四个保护因素之间的相互作用。研究发现，同伴受害与内在症状直接相关。在互动方面，研究发现父母之间的亲密关系减轻了同伴受害与内在症状之间的联系。研究结果表明，亲子关系是研究假设中需要考虑的重要保护因素。这些发现特别表明了发展假设的重要性，以测试父母亲是否可以保护青少年免受与同伴受害有关的内在症状。研究结果表明，亲子关系是研究假设中需要考虑的重要保护因素。这些发现特别表明了发展假设的重要性，以测试父母亲是否可以保护青少年免受与同伴受害有关的内在症状。研究结果表明，亲子关系是研究假设中需要考虑的重要保护因素。这些发现特别表明了发展假设以测试父母亲是否能保护青少年免受与同伴受害有关的内在症状的重要性。