Aisling Mulvihill

Biographic Data

ID4460144
NAMEAisling Mulvihill
GIVEN NAMESAisling
FAMILY NAMEMulvihill
SIGNATUREMULVIHILL A
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Queensland
ORCID0000-0001-5157-5304
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • From Dolls to Trucks: Factors Associated With Adults' Gender‐Typing of Children's Toys

    Open AccessCallyn Farrell, Aisling Mulvihill et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Psychology2026

    Children's gender socialisation begins from a young age and one socialisation context used to provide gender‐based information is toy play. Adults play a key role in prescribing children's toys; however, the factors that motivate adults to consider toys as gender‐typed for boys or girls require further investigation. We investigated predictors of gender‐typing of children's toys by women and men, both parents and non‐parents. In this study, 1200 …

  • Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children

    Open AccessKendall Wall, Aisling Mulvihill et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2026

    Private speech is a tool through which children self-regulate. The regulatory content of children’s overt private speech is associated with response to task difficulty and task performance. Parenting is proposed to play a role in the development of private speech as co-regulatory interactions become represented by the child as private speech to regulate thinking and behaviour. This study investigated the relationship between maternal parenting st…

  • Talking Minds: Group Gender Composition and Educators’ Mental State Language in Early Childhood Education and Care

    Open AccessElizabeth Brook, Peter Rankin et al.ARTICLESocial Development2026

    Children's exposure to mental state language (MSL) has implications for their social, emotional and cognitive developmental outcomes. Although parental MSL is found to vary as a function of child gender, gender differences in children's MSL exposure are yet to be considered in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) context. This study examined whether changes in the gender composition of child‐groups were associated with educators’ use of …

  • Using a Continuous Measure of Child Gender Identity to Explore Mother–Child Agreement

    Open AccessCallyn Farrell, Aisling Mulvihill et al.ARTICLESocial Development2025

    Children's gender identity is typically assessed using binary, categorical measures, limiting the ability to capture individual differences or diversity. The Gender Spectrum Task offers a continuous, developmentally appropriate single‐item measure for assessing children's gender identity from 3years of age. This study extends its use to a dyadic format by examining mother‐child alignment on the measure. Australian mother‐child dyads ( N = 107; ch…

  • Task difficulty and private speech in typically developing and at-risk preschool children

    Open AccessAisling Mulvihill, Natasha MATTHEWS et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2023

    Private speech is a cognitive tool to guide thinking and behavior, yet its regulatory use in atypical development remains equivocal. This study investigated the influence of task difficulty on private speech in preschool children with attention or language difficulties. Measures of private speech use, form and content were obtained while 52 typically developing and 25 developmentally at-risk three- to four-year-old children completed Duplo constr…

  • How We Talk to Kids: Adults Prefer Different Forms of Language for Children Based on Gender Expression

    Open AccessCallyn Farrell, Virginia Slaughter et al.ARTICLESex Roles2023Cited by: 1References: 5