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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skal altså forstås individuelt, og i lyset af hvordan informanterne formåede at klare sig inden
nedlukningerne.
Præstationskrav og autenticitet
Charlotte opdagede at hun har etableret nye kontakter til hendes nye vennegruppe under Covid-19.
Det er tydeligt i følgende citat, hvordan hun før har været underlagt en præstationskultur.
“for at opfinde sig selv og personliggøre sine handlinger må individet vedvarende præstere noget,
der udmærker der i forhold til andre. Ansvaret herfor hviler på individets egne skuldre, hvorfor
præstationssamfundet også gennemsyres af tanken om selv-ansvarliggørelse (Petersen, 2016.s.68).
Petersen beskriver hvorvidt individets betingelser under præstationssamfundet har medført en
forværring af individets psykologiske tilstand, hvilket også har banet vej for en øget tilstand af antal
af mennesker med depressionslignende symptomer. De ændrede samfundsnormer under Covid-19
har også en stor betydning for individets socialisering. Det er blandt andet tydeligt hvordan
Charlotte har været præget af de normer som normalt hersker under præstationssamfundet, det
hænger sammen med de nye typer samfundskrav, som svækker evnen til at orientere sig
selvstændigt.
Charles Taylor vil kalde det tiden under Covid-19 hvor unge har brug for normdannende
autenticitets kultur. Han mener at jagten på andres beundring, kan skabe en masse problemer for
den enkelte. Individualiteten har fortrængt alle mulige menneskelige fællesskaber, som gør at
mennesket står meget alene. Det kan fører til tomhed og meningsløshed, et liv uden meningsfulde
fællesskaber kan være svært.
Samtidsdiagnosen under Covid-19 nedlukninger vil defineres som en tilstand der udsætter individet
for risiko forbundet fællesskaber. Det kan man tydeligt bemærke hos Charlotte, da
den manglende behov for moralske horisonter kan føre til at hun ikke føler sig fri, uden behov for
en horisont til at kunne orientere sig omkring (Taylor, 2002. s.68). Denne orientering opleves ifølge
Charlotte som en lempelse af præstations normsæt i hendes nye vennegruppe.
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