A new approach to understanding psychological pre-requisites of the creative personality is presented. Among them - specifically represented and organized relations with other people. Six types of such relations, corresponding to six self-regulation functions, constitute a system. The approach has been experimentally substantiated. It is shown that in adolescent schoolchildren creativity is observed in those cases where the system of self-regulation is composed of rather loosely connected components. Some recommendations are provided as to how to design relations with .a schoolchild in order to promote in him development of creativity.