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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between different components of emotional regulation - Implicit Theories of Emotions (ITE), Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Emotional Creativity (EC). Prior research has focused on separate contributions of these components to emotional regulation. The goal of our study was to investigate whether ITE are integrated more with the facets of EI or EC. In Hypothesis 1 it was expected that incremental ITE as cognitive beliefs about the malleability of emotions will correlate with those scales of EI that measure Emotion Management and won’t correlate with measures of Emotion Comprehension or Emotion Expression. In Hypothesis 2 we expected ITE to show correlations with different facets of EC. The study sample included 406 students from various departments at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The students completed the ITE scale (Tamir et al., 2007; in Russian), the Emotional Creativity Inventory (Averill, 1999; adapted to Russian: Shestova, 2019) and EmIn Questionnaire (Lyusin, 2009). The results support Hypothesis 1: incremental ITE showed positive correlations with the effective Emotion Management regarding both one’s own emotions (r = 0.31, p = 0.021) and emotions of others (r = 0.33, p = 0.014). ITE didn’t correlate significantly with measures of Emotion Comprehension and Emotion Expression. Hypothesis 2 received partial support: incremental ITE showed positive correlations with Effectiveness (r = 0.31, p = 0.001) and Authenticity (r = 0.30, p = 0.002) facets of Emotional Creativity. Finally, both positive and negative correlations emerged between different measures of EI and EC. Overall, ITE correlate with abilities to manage emotions and not with abilities to understand emotions. ITE are also related to certain aspects of emotional creativity. There are both positive and negative associations between different facets of emotional intelligence and emotional creativity. Supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project 19-29-07069