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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acceleration har medført. At man skal være den der vælges til, og stadigvæk leve op til bestemte
krav i de respektive vennegrupper for at sikre sig en plads til de arrangementer der foregår under
covid-19 nedlukningerne. Dettes kan anskues som en fordel for Charlotte, da hun fortæller om at
hun får sikret sig en plads til festerne. Dette kan ifølge Rosa forstås ud fra kravet om at konstant
have lyst til at leve op til bestemte kriterier og bestemmelser som der kræves af den enkelte (Rosa,
2014. s.32).
Sænket præstationskrav
I forhold til Karoline, er det tydeligt hvorvidt præstationskravene er sænket under Covid-19. Det
siger blandt andet noget om hvor svært, det var for hende at skulle leve op til konstant socialt pres.
Hun føler at det er en fordel ved nedlukningerne at præstationskravene er sænket, at det ikke
længere hviler på hende, og derfor frygter hun heller ikke længere hvad folk tænker om hende,
netop fordi hun ikke ses med særlig mange grundet nedlukningerne.
Både for Karoline og Charlottes vedkommende har de oplevet at knytte tættere bånd med de få, som
de har måtte mødtes med. Hvilket har styrket oplevelsen at værdsætte sociale bånd. Det er tydeligt
hvorvidt kravene fra samfundet om præstation er minimeret. Det defineres ud fra Petersen hvorvidt
et præstationssamfund præger under normale omstændigheder:
“Et begreb der synes at beskrive præmissen at kunne i præstationssamfundet, er ‘vedvarende
aktivitet’, i den forstand, at præstationsindividet konstant skal holde sig selv i aktivitet og dermed
undgå pinslen ved at stoppe op og gå i stå” (Petersen, 2016, s.70)
Ifølge Anders Petersen, beskrives samfundet som, et præstationssamfund der præges af en
præstationskultur. Det moderne menneske skal indordne sig efter nogle fastlagte logikker, og derfor
bliver præstation i sig selv en vigtig kompetence at besidde (Pedersen, 2016, s.61). Præstation viser
i sig selv, for Karoline og Charlottes vedkommende, som noget positivt under nedlukningerne.
Ensomhedsfølelsen kan anspores til at Lars stadigvæk er drevet af de normer som drev ham under
præstationssamfundet. Generelt er de forventninger og krav der herskede før Covid-19
nedlukningerne, sænket i en grad, at det trækker nogle positive spor ind i hvordan informanterne har
mødt en naturlig måde at indgå i sociale relationer på. Informanterne værdsætter i højere grad de
tætte dannede relationer, som før var præget af konstant pres, defineret af logikker som gjorde at
venskaber ikke fik samme dybde og mening. Der har dog været nogle oplevelser af at det har været
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