En kvalitativ undersøgelse af danske gymnasiestuderendes oplevelser af fælleskaber, hverdagsliv & mental sundhed
In this project have I investigated how the young high school age population in Denmark has experienced and coped with a different everyday life during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, several major impacts was done from a government and world leaders chair. Traveling got restricted. The nightlife was shut down, the cafes and restaurants was shut down, and for a longer time period everyone had to work from home, this is referred as the “lockdown”. This raises the question what possible consequences the lockdowns have had for young people in high school ages mental wellbeing. What I have done through qualitative research interviews is to find 3 informants through several sources like Facebook and networking through the municipality and private contacts. The young people who I was looking for, and found, all have in common that they are attending high school. What was interesting to discover was that they all have experienced difficulties during the pandemic. Some of the difficulties involved the limiting of socializing with friends and family, and problem of getting new friends when starting in a new school. But there are also benefits like the realization of getting closer to the friends that you do keep in contact with during the lockdown, if it is on an online platform, through video games, or it is outdoors in person. Theoretically have I used expressions regarding social pathologies like Hartmut Rosas theory about acceleration and resonance. How the social acceleration is defined from a constant competition that we must live up to with each other, and how this is broken down during the lockdown. Another is Anders Petersens theory about the performance society and how everyone must achieve certain goals in life to have fulfilled their purpose. On that behalf it’s concluded that the informants way of perceiving their stories about changed relationships to friends, family and the surrounding society, the importance of everyday life, has been different during the two lockdowns. In the first lockdown there was a relief from the social pressure regarding social life but also on the studies, whereas the second challenged the mental pressure of reaching the high bar of the norms because the pressure for achieving was just as high as before the lockdowns. Listening to the challenged youth, and how they experience the lockdowns, can show the changes in society and the consequences, for these individuals.
In this project have I investigated how the young high school age population in Denmark has experienced and coped with a different everyday life during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, several major impacts was done from a government and world leaders chair. Traveling got restricted. The nightlife was shut down, the cafes and restaurants was shut down, and for a longer time period everyone had to work from home, this is referred as the “lockdown”. This raises the question what possible consequences the lockdowns have had for young people in high school ages mental wellbeing.
What I have done through qualitative research interviews is to find 3 informants through several sources like Facebook and networking through the municipality and private contacts. The young people who I was looking for, and found, all have in common that they are attending high school. What was interesting to discover was that they all have experienced difficulties during the pandemic. Some of the difficulties involved the limiting of socializing with friends and family, and problem of getting new friends when starting in a new school.
But there are also benefits like the realization of getting closer to the friends that you do keep in contact with during the lockdown, if it is on an online platform, through video games, or it is outdoors in person.
Theoretically have I used expressions regarding social pathologies like Hartmut Rosas theory about acceleration and resonance. How the social acceleration is defined from a constant competition that we must live up to with each other, and how this is broken down during the lockdown.
Another is Anders Petersens theory about the performance society and how everyone must achieve certain goals in life to have fulfilled their purpose.
On that behalf it’s concluded that the informants way of perceiving their stories about changed relationships to friends, family and the surrounding society, the importance of everyday life, has been different during the two lockdowns. In the first lockdown there was a relief from the social pressure regarding social life but also on the studies, whereas the second challenged the mental pressure of reaching the high bar of the norms because the pressure for achieving was just as high as before the lockdowns. Listening to the challenged youth, and how they experience the lockdowns, can show the changes in society and the consequences, for these individuals.
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fællesskaber, til fordel for at indgå i nye fællesskaber. Dette kan eksempelvis være i forbindelse
med studieskift. De unge søger ofte en orientering om sociale fællesskaber hvor de kan realisere
deres ønsker. Disse ønsker skal blandt andet danne ramme om det sociale liv, udenfor studiet altså
blandet andet til fester (Jensen, m.fl. s.37).
Fællesskaber som ikke danner betydningsfulde rammer om et venskab, og ikke forpligter, i nogle
institutionelle vennekredse kan føre til større følelse af ensomhed (Ibid.). En anden dimension er
ifølge rapporten udgivet af (The Lancet Regional Health Europe) her beskrives at nedlukningerne i
Danmark har i en betydelig grad påvirket det psykiske helbred, mest hos unge under 30 år, og at
hver fjerde dansker under 30 år, har under Covid-19 nedlukningen erfaret ensomheden tæt ind på
kroppen (Madsen, m.fl. 2021).
Unges hverdagsliv
I forlængelse af de unges fællesskaber, har CEFU udarbejdet en rapport under navnet “Når det er
svært at være ung i DK - Viden og råd om unges trivsel og mistrivsel” (Nielsen & Sørensen, 2011).
Rapporten omhandler trivsel og mistrivsel, beskrevet gennem en individuel vurdering fra unges
perspektiver (Nielsen & Sørensen, 2011. s.9). Det er derfor forskelligt hvordan trivsel og mistrivsel
påvirker den enkelte ung i hverdagen.
I rapporten Når det er svært at være ung i DK - Viden og råd om unges trivsel og mistrivsel har man
gennem en spørgeskemaundersøgelse, valgt at undersøge et repræsentativt udsnit af 15 - 24-årige
unge, gennem fire hovedspørgsmål, som henvender sig henholdsvis til hvordan de unge generelt
oplever deres liv her og nu (Nielsen & Sørensen, 2011. s.9).
I undersøgelsen svarer 83,2 % at de oplever at have det meget godt. 13,6 % oplever hverken godt
eller dårligt, og sluttelig svarer 3,1 % at de oplever deres trivsel som meget dårligt (Nielsen &
Sørensen, 2011, s.13).
Herudover svarer deltagere på hvor ofte de har problemer, der gør det svært for dem at klare sig
igennem deres hverdag, her svarer 78,6 % af deltagerne at de sjældent eller aldrig oplever
problemer, 12,7% svarer hverken sjældent eller ofte, og 8,7% svarer at de ofte eller altid oplever
problemer, der gør det svært at klare sig igennem en hverdag (Nielsen & Sørensen, 2011, s.13).
Herudover svarer deltagerne på hvordan de oplever deres selvtillid, hvor 73,4% svarer at de oplever
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