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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oplevelser gennem subjektive oplevelser. Gadamer mener at når disse to verdener mødes kan der
opstå en ”horisontsammensmeltning” (Järvinen & Mik-Meyer, 2017. s.137).
Horisontsammensmeltning opstår når min personlige opfattelse smelter sammen med de unge
informanters fortællinger af deres oplevelser. Min forforståelse centraliserer sig blandt andet
omkring tematikker som en udfordrende forværring af måden de unge tilgår hinanden i sociale
relationer. Hvilket medfører en øget nysgerrighed for hvorvidt om de unge føler deres
hverdagsstruktur har været forandret, og hvordan de i den forbindelse mestre det mentale helbred.
Jeg er derfor bevidst om min egen forforståelse, kan have indvirkning på måden jeg går til værks i
mine forskningsspørgsmål, for mit valg af teoretisk retning, samt udarbejdelse af spørgsmål til mine
informanter.
Det er dog ifølge Gadamer ikke ensbetydende med, at de to horisonter bliver identiske (Ibid.). Med
dette menes at jeg kan finde frem til en anden virkelighedsopfattelse, end den jeg startede med at
have, inden jeg påbegyndte projektet. Jeg er derfor bevidst om at der under indsamling af empirien,
gennem interviewene, kan vise sig at være en modsætning mellem mine egne forforståelser og mine
faktuelle empiriske fund. Mine forforståelser beror blandt andet på at de unge har været udfordret
på måden hvorpå de skulle omstille sig på en ændret hverdag, med mindre præstationskrav, og
lempelse af sociale krav og tempo. Jeg er i den overbevisning at det som ung kan være svært at
forvalte et liv, som er gået lidt i stå, eller sat på pause. Behovet for at leve op til anerkendelses
givende idealer som ikke længere er til stede. Ifølge Gadamer er forforståelser forbundet med
menneskets væremåde, og at man derfor forud for enhver konkret vurdering forud for et møde
allerede har fældet en række fordomme (Järvinen & Mik-Meyer, 2017.s.135). Gadamer mener
ligeledes at det er i kraft af vores fordomme, at vi kan forstå noget som noget bestemt (Ibid.).
Den nye oparbejdede forståelse af et bestemt fænomen vil ud fra enkeltdele og helhed relatere til
min egen nye horisont forståelse (Järvinen & Mik-Meyer, 2017.s.163). Det er under interviewene at
forståelsen for hvordan horisonterne smelter sammen i en ny fortolkning, således at der kan
pålægges et nyt syn ud fra den kontekst der bliver skabt, og anvendt. Den nye viden vil således
blive gjort genstand for den nye fortolkning, af hvad der skal være med til at kvalificere min
forståelse der rør sig, ud fra de unges livsverden (Järvinen & Mik-Meyer, 2017. s. 165).
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