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Building on positive psychology, this study examined whether psychological capital (PsyCap) enhances academic resilience directly and indirectly through a sequential process involving academic self-efficacy and coping self-efficacy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A cross-sectional survey design was used with undergraduate participants from a Chinese university. Validated scales were used to measure PsyCap, academic self-efficacy, coping self-efficacy and academic resilience. Correlation analyses and chain mediation modeling (bootstrapping) were conducted to test the direct, parallel, and sequential indirect effects while controlling for basic demographic variables.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Psychological capital was positively associated with academic resilience and efficacy. Mediation analysis showed that academic and coping self-efficacy significantly mediated the relationship between PsyCap and resilience. More importantly, a significant chain pathway was identified: PsyCap was positively associated with higher academic self-efficacy, which was positively related to coping self-efficacy, which, in turn, was associated with higher academic resilience. This highlights the theoretical significance of the sequential pathway, despite its modest quantitative contribution, particularly in terms of intervention sequencing.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Psychological capital functions as an upstream psychological resource that is structurally linked to academic resilience through independent and sequential efficacy mechanisms. 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