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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(specialpædagogisk støtte) med unge, fik jeg den nødvendige hjælp til at etablere kontakt til to
andre unge, dette var Lars og Karoline. Hvor af Karoline er tilknyttet som SPS støtte modtager.
Jeg er bevidst om, det at min ene informant Karoline, er tilknyttet en socialpædagogisk
støtteordning, og dermed defineret sårbar, og Charlotte som definerer sig selv som sårbar, da hun
selv er bruger af et frivilligt tilbud for sårbare unge. Dette kan have ekstraordinære betydninger for
informanternes oplevelser af nedlukningerne. På den ene side kan mine informanter være særlig
sensitive for de ændrede rammer under nedlukningerne. På den anden side, kan det pres som de
potentielt oplever generelt at være disponeret for i ungdomslivet, være lettet som konsekvens af
nedlukningerne. Jeg har derfor den forståelse, at det at lytte til hvordan sårbare unge oplever
nedlukningerne, kan være en stor fordel, for at forstå de konsekvenser nedlukningerne har haft for
dem, og dette vil blive tydeligt at få øje på i analysen, og samtidig skabe et større samfundsmæssig
perspektiv på sårbar unges livsvilkår under forandrede rammer i henholdsvis 1. og 2. nedlukning af
Covid-19 pandemien.
Jeg er samtidig bevidst om, at jeg i projektet har taget kontakt til unge under pandemiens anden
nedlukning, og der derfor kan være nuancer samt problematikker fra første nedlukning. Det er
muligt at de to nedlukninger har haft lige meget betydning for de forandringer som de unge har
oplevet, men det er et bevidst valg, at jeg har fokus på, at det er to forskellige perioder. Vigtigheden
består i, at nedlukningerne har kunnet påvirke hverdagsstrukturen forskeligt, men dette er ikke givet
på forhånd. Selv efter den ovenstående beskrevne indsats, lykkedes det mig ikke at få rekrutteret
flere end tre unge til interviews.
Inden påbegyndelsen af interviewene, informerede jeg kort informanterne om temaerne i selve
interviewet, dette kan have haft betydning på hvordan informanterne har valgt at svare. Det kunne
også give informanterne en ide om hvad jeg forventede de ville svarede, dette beskrives, da det kan
have en betydning for gyldigheden af de svar som de har tilkendegivet under interviews. Jeg har
under min rekruttering af informanter bevidst gået efter at finde unge i alderen 16 – 24 år, og jeg har
samlet fundet tre studerende der alle har tilfælles at de går på et gymnasium.
Under interview stillede jeg spørgsmål omkring sociale fællesskaber før og under Covid-19,
herefter hvordan informanternes hverdagsstruktur forholder sig, og hvordan de definerer deres
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