The article is devoted to the analysis of relevance and expediency of research of process of motivation as the factor influencing successful adaptation of students. Identifying various aspects of students' motivation enables them to provide prompt feedback and improve adaptation conditions. The purpose of the research is to carry out a theoretical substantiation and an empirical study of the influence of motivation on the process of adaptation of students of the second higher education to study in a higher education institution. The task of the research is to select and conduct psychodiagnostic methods for studying the motivation and adaptation of students to learning; to determine the impact of motivation on the success of the adaptation of second higher education students to study. Analyzed the main approaches to the study of motivation and its species. The theoretical analysis of researches of problems of the motivation of students at present and features of the passing of successful adaptation is carried out. It was found that the specifics of motivation to learn is one of the important components that contribute to the successful adaptation and mastery of the chosen profession. After all, from the purposefulness and awareness of their prospects, it is much easier for a student to go through a new stage of socialization. In the course of the conducted experimental study of students 'motivation to study and adaptation, the peculiarities of motivation to study were revealed and the indicators of students' adaptation to educational activity were determined. It was also considered the causal relationship between the characteristics of motivation to study and the success of adaptation in higher education, which gives reason to believe that motivation to learn and master professional knowledge is one of the factors of successful adaptation not only in the academic group, but and in educational activities in general. The results of an empirical study of student motivation are presented. According to the data obtained during the empirical study, we can trace the following tendency: the vast majority of students had average motivation to study. Accordingly, a small number of students had the highest or lowest scores. Probably, students who resume their studies at the second higher education come to the institution of higher education already motivated, compared to students who enter the study after graduation. References Besh, L.V., Dmytryshyn, B.Ia., & Besh, O.M. (2017). 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