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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Rosa mener at det moderne menneske er underlagt et tidsregime, som ikke sanser menneskets
sociale relationer, og ifølge Rosa kan gøre at man kan lide under hastig forandring, som de unge
ikke kan følge med i, og derved kan de unge have svært ved at følge hinandens acceleration, hvilket
kan udsætte de unges sanselige relationer (Rosa, 2014. s.36). Det kan derfor ud fra Karolines måde
at anskue hendes svækkelse i kontakt til venner, gøre det endnu sværere at skabe sig en ny
dagligdag, når hun ikke kan se sine venner under fysiske rammer. Rosa illustrerer at mennesket skal
kunne modstå tid og hastighed, for at kunne blive stående hvor man befinder sig (Rosa, 2014, s.41).
Kravet om at man skal være forandringsvillig for at blive stående hvor man er, kan tolkes ud fra
hvad Lars fortæller som en ensomhedsfølelse, i mangel af at komme ud og bevæge sig fysisk. Han
sidder i stedet foran kameraet i flere timer om dagen, dette forstærker følelsen af at “sidde fast
derhjemme” uden at kunne præstere som han plejer.
Der peges i tidligere nævnte rapport Unges fællesskaber, at unges liv før Covid-19 viste således at
unge, havde nogle fastlagte normer for måden de mødtes på (Jensen, m.fl. s.24). Rapporten viste
også at de sociale fællesskaber var essentielle for de unge. Ovenstående analyse har påvist at dette
er blevet forandret til en ny måde at skulle opfylde den social kontakt på. Blandt andet har den
digitale måde at være sammen på, været en udfordring for alle informanterne, fordi det ikke førhen
var normen at mødes virtuelt.
Analysedel 1.2: værdsættelse af de sociale relationer
I forhold til at værdsætte sociale relationer oplever alle informanter at have knyttet et tættere bånd
til hinanden og være taknemmelige for de venner de har, som de føler er blevet tættere. Der er flere
som oplever at værdsætte deres venner mere, hvor de før tog dem mere for givet. Det kommer
blandt andet til udtryk hos Karoline, som fortæller, at hun har lært at sætte mere pris på hendes
venskaber, fordi de udgør en vigtig del af hendes hverdag. Derfor blev Karoline endnu mere bevidst
under nedlukningerne. Hendes refleksioner handlede blandt andet om, hvor stor en glæde det var for
hende at have vennerne i hendes liv, men som hun havde taget lidt for givet og undervurderet.
Karoline nævner at hun ikke føler at skulle præstere i samme omfang i sociale relationer som hun
ellers har været vant til. Det har givet en mere naturlig tilgang til at efterleve præstationskravene i
måden hun interagere socialt i de tætte relationer. Oplevelsen af lettelse for normerne i den sociale
omgangskreds er ligeledes i overensstemmelse med WHO’s definition af mental sundhed, som
hjælper med at forstå den udvikling informanterne har gennemgået i deres sociale fælleskaber. Det
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