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The current study aimed to uncover the contribution of the variables of self-efficacy, academic resilience, and perceived academic support in shaping research competence for postgraduate students at Damanhour University, as well as uncovering the nature of the relationship between both research competence, self-efficacy, and academic resilience and perceived academic support. The core study sample consisted of (205) male and female students from the postgraduate students at the Faculties of Education, Arts, Science, Agriculture, Commerce, Science and Veterinary Medicine, Damanhur University, during the academic year 2018/2019. The following tools were applied to them; the measure of self-efficacy; Preparation (Scholz et al., 2002): translation: Researcher. The measure of academic resilience; Prepared (Cassidy, 2016), translated: Researcher. Perceptive Academic Support Scale: Prepared by: Researcher, Research competence Scale; Prepared by: Researcher. The results of the study resulted in the following: 1) There are a statistically significant relationship between general self-efficacy and academic resilience of postgraduate students at Damanhur University. 2) There is a statistically significant relationship between the perceived academic support and the academic resilience of postgraduate students at Damanhur University. 3) Predicting academic resilience in light of both self-efficacy and perceived academic support among graduate students at Damanhur University. 4) There are a statistically significant relationship between self-efficacy and research efficiency among postgraduate students at Damanhur University. 5) There are a statistically significant relationship between the perceived academic support and research competence of postgraduate students at Damanhur University. 6) There are a statistically significant relationship between academic resilience and research competence of postgraduate students at Damanhur University. 7) Predicting research competence in through both self-efficacy, academic resilience, and perceived academic support for Damanhur graduate students. 8) Establishing a causal model that links the variables of general self-efficacy and perceived academic support (by teachers, peers, and families) and the academic resilience variable (perseverance, contemplation, adaptation, seeking help, negative influence and emotional response) as an intermediate variable and research competence. (Published Abstract)