Adaptive competence is adaptation, so adaptation is the ability to adapt and integrate into a new environment. This would include understanding and accepting a certain culture. There are different forms of adaptation, psychological and sociocultural (Searle, Ward 1990). Sociocultural adaptation can be understood as a process of social learning and is associated with duration, existing cultural distance and amount of contact with community members. host culture. This could make adapting to a new culture more or less difficult (Zlobina, Paez 2004). Foreigners who leave their culture of origin and immerse themselves in a new culture with norms, values ​​and customs that they do not recognize as their own must make an effort to adapt. The aforementioned adaptation or adjustment process involves three fundamental aspects: 1) Psychological adaptation, including acceptance and degree of satisfaction in the new cultural environment. 2) Cultural learning, which is the acquisition of social skills that allow the sojourner to adapt to the host culture and establish bonds with members of the host culture and, finally, 3) Learning appropriate behavior for solving social tasks. Sociocultural adaptation involves social and cultural learning. The three dimensions are connected, but have a certain independence from each other (Moghaddam, Taylor, Wright, 1993). Ward (2004) demonstrated that international students, who were culturally adapted, adopted elements of both cultures and attempted to achieve a bicultural identity. It is important to note that every foreigner has gone through a series of grieving processes after migration due to the loss of two important elements such as: firstly, the extended family and friends, which constitute the society... at the center of the paper. .....while completing the questionnaires, the lighting was turned off to avoid electricity lossesCHAPTER THREEResults and Discussion3.1.1 Assessment of Adaptation CompetenceThe data received for the revised Sociocultural Adaptation Scale of the newest students showed (m= 3.1, sd =0.37) and for older students (m=3.95, sd=0.66). A T-test was performed to determine the significant difference between the means of the two groups. A p value of 0.0002 at a 95% confidence level indicated a significant difference between scores. This demonstrated that older students had a higher level of competence in adapting to the host culture. To learn about potential areas in which students feel most competent, we need to examine the scores for each subscale.