Citizen Crisis Self-Efficacy: An SEM Analysis of Data from Three Chinese Communities

21st-century witnesses urban cities being upset by various hazards, like contagious illness, economic fluctuation, and rare climate hazards, which urban cities suffer from an oblivion of their micro-level coping ability and resiliency.It is vital to explore their perceived efficacy of coping behavior after being tested by the pandemic.This research established a model to explore the relationship between vulnerability coping behaviors (VCB)and crisis self-efficacy (CSE), adding mediators community resilience (CR)and anticipation of extreme crisis (AEC).By random sampling from three urban cities, Beijing (207), Shanghai (220), and Wuhan (226) in June 2024, June structural equation model analysis shows that two mediations by CR and AEC are significant, but the chained mediation failed.The model also passes the cross-sample invariance test, ensuring its stability.As an exploratory study, it contributes to the field of disaster resilience research as follows: (1)It expands the coping theory by developing a new construct, anticipation of extreme crisis, to surpass the common scenarios and develop a model to explain other antecedents of crisis coping efficacy.(2) Wuhan and Shanghai citizens derive lower crisis self-efficacy from their anticipation of extreme crises, and they bolster their crisis efficacy on community resilience.While Beijing citizens trust less in community resilience than themselves to cope.Besides, their crisis efficacy is more aligned with the anticipation of extreme crises.