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We asked how parental meta-emotion philosophy relates to change in two facets of children\u2019s classroom emotional regulation\u2014adaptive regulation and lability\/negativity\u2014across one academic year, and whether teacher\u2013student interaction quality conditions those associations. A two-wave panel design with a 12-month interval followed 289 child\u2013parent dyads (children aged 6\u20138\u202fyears) drawn from six public elementary schools in an eastern-Chinese metropolitan area. Parents completed the Chinese adaptation of the Maternal Emotional Style Questionnaire at baseline; trained observers coded children\u2019s classroom emotional regulation at both waves; and teacher\u2013student interaction quality was rated with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, concurrently with the second wave of the outcome. Multilevel regression\u2014children nested in classrooms\u2014showed that emotion coaching at T1 forecast higher T2 adaptive regulation (\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M1\">\n                        <mml:mi>\u03b2<\/mml:mi>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    = 0.17,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f0.002) and, more modestly, lower lability\/negativity (\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M2\">\n                        <mml:mi>\u03b2<\/mml:mi>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    =\u202f\u2212\u202f0.11,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f0.041), whereas emotion dismissing forecast lower adaptive regulation (\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M3\">\n                        <mml:mi>\u03b2<\/mml:mi>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    =\u202f\u2212\u202f0.13,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f0.018) and higher lability\/negativity (\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M4\">\n                        <mml:mi>\u03b2<\/mml:mi>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    = 0.15,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f0.009), with baseline regulation, demographics, and classroom clustering controlled throughout. Teacher emotional support conditioned the family-level pathways on both facets: coaching effects were amplified where emotional support was high, whereas dismissing effects were partially buffered under the same condition. Classroom organization and instructional support moderated neither pathway. These findings extend meta-emotion theory into the instructional domain and offer evidence, in a Chinese context where coaching and dismissing beliefs may co-exist, for bioecological mesosystem interdependence between family and school microsystems.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1837821","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,10]],"date-time":"2026-09-10T05:31:08Z","timestamp":1789018268000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Parental meta-emotion philosophy and children\u2019s classroom emotional regulation: the moderating role of teacher\u2013student interaction quality"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Na","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Preschool Education, Qingdao Preschool Education College","place":["Qingdao, Shandong, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhiyu","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Journalism and Communication, Xinxiang University","place":["Xinxiang, Henan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"171","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jecp.2011.03.009","article-title":"Methodological implications of the affect revolution: a 35-year review of emotion regulation assessment in children","volume":"110","author":"Adrian","year":"2011","journal-title":"J. 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