The Dark triad represent syndrome of socially aversive personality traits comprised of Machiavellianism, narcissism and subclinical psychopathy. The Dark triad is a compound of socially malevolent personality with tendencies to self-promotion, emotional coldness, duplicity and aggression. Generally, the Dark triad is characterized by impulsivity, thrillseeking behaviour and risk behaviour. Need for drama is a compound of maladaptive personality trait which refers to impulsive manipulation of others from perceived victimhood. Need for drama includes interpersonal manipulation, impulsive outspokenness and persistent perceived victimhood. Emotion regulation is automatic or controlled, conscious or unconscious process by which individual affects his own emotions or emotion of others. The goal of this research is to examine how are the Dark triad traits and the Need for drama traits associated with strategies of emotion regulation. This study is paper survey, and sample consists of 320 participants aged 18-62 years (M=36.52, sd=12.96). Instruments used in this study showed satisfying metric characteristic. Rumination, adaptive strategies of self-regulation and antecedent-focused strategies are significantly more frequent in women, and strategy of modulation of emotional response is significantly more frequent in men. Older participants in this sample more frequently use interpersonal strategy modulation of emotional response and self-regulation strategy of catastrophizing. Younger participants more frequently use adaptive self-regulation strategy of positive reappraisal. The Dark triad traits and the Need for drama are in moderately high positive correlation. Adaptive selfregulation strategies are in positive correlation with antecedent-focused strategies. Significant positive correlations were also observed between maladaptive strategies rumination, self-blame and antecedent-focused strategies. Maladaptive self-regulation emotion strategies, catastrophizing and other-blame, are in positive correlation with strategy of modulation of emotional response. The Dark triad traits and the Need for drama are most correlated with maladaptive self-regulation strategies other-blame, catastrophizing, rumination and self-blame and also with interpersonal strategy of modulation of emotional response. Age, subclinical psychopathy and persistent perceived victimhood are the most effective predictors of strategies other-blame, modulation of emotional response and catastrophizing in this sample.