My iPhone 5s is crashing and rebooting on its own.

I have tried a hard reset (with no improvement) and have backed up my phone today in preparation for restoring the phone. My plan was to do a factory reset and then restore from my backup. However, I am wondering if I restore from my backup, whether it might restore the problem causing the crashes. I appreciate any help to make sure I'm on the right track!
Thank you!

I was impatient and contacted Apple Support (love using Chat Support!) Their advice was to restore to factory settings for 24 hours and then if the problem didn't happen in those 24 hours, to restore my backup. This will let us know if it's hardware or something in the backup. So their answer combines both of yours.
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