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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Analysedel 1
Analysedel 1.1: Afsavn til venner og familie
I den indsamlede empiri findes en tydelig ændring af måden hvorpå unge kontakter hinanden. Alle
informanter tilkendegiver at de i perioden under Covid-19 nedlukningerne har oplevet sociale
forandringer ved blandt andet at have et afsavn til familie og venner. Charlotte nævner, at afsavnet
til venner ikke har været en stor udfordring under nedlukningerne, derimod fortæller hun, at det
føltes som en større udfordring at skulle træffe bedsteforældrene.
Karoline nævner i interviewet, at hun føler et stort afsavn i at skulle mødes og være social med
hendes klassekammerater. Dette har påvirket Karolines måde at være studerende på, da hun har
skulle omstille sig, og fordi Karoline ikke har kunnet omgås sine klassekammerater, og deltage i
sociale arrangementer. Denne udfordring kan dog også i Karolines tilfælde forklares via andre
faktorer, da Karoline har været på udveksling i et helt år, og derfor lige er startet i en ny klasse,
meget kort tid inden 1. nedlukning. Når de unge er i en tilstand af udfordringer i det private liv, kan
det ud fra Sundhedsstyrelsen definition af mental sundhed, forstås ved at tilstanden af udfordringer
kan variere, fordi det er skiftende i forhold til hvordan informanterne har levet under bestemte
situationer før og under nedlukningerne, som kan skabe perioder med mistrivsel (Christensen mf.
2017, s.9). Sundhedsstyrelsens definition af mental trivsel kan sammenholdes med Karolines
opståede problemer som knyttes an til omstilling til det at være studerende, og den nævnte
udfordring af Charlotte i forbindelse med at efterleve normer for kontakt til familiemedlemmer.
Udover disse perspektiver har alle informanterne oplevet en anden dimension af en forandring.
Forandringen er opstået i måden de har haft kontakt med hinanden under nedlukningerne.
Informanterne fortæller at nu foregår kommunikationen primært digitalt, også når de skal være
sammen socialt. Det er opstået en helt ny måde at skulle aktivere sig selv til at være sammen med
andre personer.
Hartmut Rosa, hjælper os med at forstå, hvad der er på spil, når de sociale relationer ændrer sig i
takt med at samfundsstrukturen ændrer sig. Under nedlukningerne er den sociale acceleration
bremset i det, at der er færre præstationer i sociale sammenhænge. Det har forandret måden hvorpå
unge interagere med hinanden. For eksempel fortæller Lars at han ikke ser folk lige så meget som
inden nedlukningerne, men derimod har han oplevet en øgning i måden han kommunikerer med
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