Candice L. Odgers

About

Candice L. Odgers is a researcher dedicated to advancing adolescent health and wellbeing. Her team develops and shares tools and resources for the broader community working in this field. These include various projects and open-source protocols aimed at understanding and improving adolescent experiences, such as the Google Street View Project, Neighborhood Dashboard, iSee, RAISE Data and Codebooks, and an AI Use and Perceptions in K-12 Education protocol. Her work emphasizes open access and community engagement, contributing valuable tools and data resources to support research and interventions in adolescent health.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Environmental health
• Internal medicine
• Developmental psychology
• Psychology
• Pediatrics
• Clinical psychology
• Demography
• Gerontology

Selected publications

• Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions

  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · 2020 · 961 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Adolescents are spending an increasing amount of their time online and connected to each other via digital technologies. Mobile device ownership and social media usage have reached unprecedented levels, and concerns have been raised that this constant connectivity is harming adolescents' mental health. This review synthesized data from three sources: (a) narrative reviews and meta-analyses conducted between 2014 and 2019, (b) large-scale preregistered cohort studies and (c) intensive longitudina…

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• Population vs Individual Prediction of Poor Health From Results of Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening

  JAMA Pediatrics · 2021 · 221 citations

  Importance: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are well-established risk factors for health problems in a population. However, it is not known whether screening for ACEs can accurately identify individuals who develop later health problems. Objective: To test the predictive accuracy of ACE screening for later health problems. Design, Setting, and Participants: This study comprised 2 birth cohorts: the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study observed 2232 participants born during th…

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• Young Adolescents' Digital Technology Use, Perceived Impairments, and Well-Being in a Representative Sample

  The Journal of Pediatrics · 2020 · 107 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• The socioeconomic consequences of loneliness: Evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study of young adults

  Social Science & Medicine · 2024-02-22 · 19 citations

  articleOpen access

  The negative health consequences of loneliness have led to increasing concern about the economic cost of loneliness in recent years. Loneliness may also incur an economic burden more directly, by impacting socioeconomic position. Much of the research to date has focused on employment status which may not fully capture socioeconomic position and has relied on cross-sectional data, leaving questions around the robustness of the association and reverse causation. The present study used longitudinal…

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• Social media use, online experiences, and loneliness among young adults: A cohort study

  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025-05-11 · 10 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  This study investigated patterns of digital technology use and their associations with loneliness in a cohort of 1632 young adults (mean age 26) in the UK who had been followed prospectively since childhood by the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study. Data were collected via an online survey in 2019-2020. Although overall time spent online was associated with greater loneliness, this was not the case for social media usage specifically. Use of social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instag…

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Frequent coauthors

• Terrie E. Moffitt

  Center for Genomic Science

  156 shared

• Avshalom Caspi

  University of Oslo

  127 shared

• Andrea Danese

  King's College London

  87 shared

• Louise Arseneault

  University of the West of England

  86 shared

• Helen L. Fisher

  King's College London

  64 shared

• F Mr

  48 shared

• William Copeland

  University of Vermont

  37 shared

• Séverine Frère

  Territoires, Villes, Environnement & Société

  34 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Developmental and Quantitative Psychology

  University of Virginia

• Other, Postdoctoral Research

  Social and Genetic Psychiatry Center

Awards & honors

• Association for Psychological Science award
• Canadian Institutes for Health Research award
• Jacobs Foundation award
• Society for Research in Child Development award
• William T. Grant Foundation award

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