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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For Charlotte er det tydeligt hvorvidt de høje præstationskrav i hendes relationer som hun oplevede
inden Covid-19 ikke defineres som længere tilstedeværende. Hvilket fører til en høj grad af
autenticitet, autenticitet er ifølge Taylor betegnelsen for at man er sig selv, og tro mod sin egen
særlighed og originalitet ved at forfølge sine egne versioner og ønsker for det gode liv. Det gode liv
under Covid-19, for Charlotte, er defineret på en måde at hun forfølger nye relationer under
udendørs rammer. Det er dog tankevækkende at ifølge Taylor bygger definition på det
moderne samfund, som en forestilling på at bare man forfølger lykken, så skaber man gode rammer
for et godt liv. Dette harmonerer ikke i tråd med at man kan realisere sig selv ved at forfølge fælles
mål, fordi individet ikke kan spejle sig i fælles mål og ståsted, med begrundelse i at de fælles mål
og ståsteder defineres som mangelfuld, da der ifølge informanterne er forskellige holdninger til
hvilke fælles mål og ståsteder som der stræbes efter.
Delkonklusion
I første analyseafsnit har jeg undersøgt hvordan de unge har oplevet at indgå i tætte relationer og
sociale fællesskaber under Covid-19 nedlukningerne. De unge fortæller især om fire temaer,
herunder afsavn til familie og venner, værdsættelse af sociale relationer, samt oplevelse af en øget
forekomst af digitaliseret interaktion. Derudover har en enkelt interviewperson oplevet at få stiftet
nye bekendtskaber under første nedlukning af Covid-19.
Samlet set kan man forstå disse forandringer som et udtryk for, et sænket tempo, og en øget social
acceleration hvor de unge har måtte træffe nogle valg for hvem de ville se, og under forandrede
forudsætninger. De unge oplever på den ene side at det har været udfordrende at ændre sociale
fællesskaber. Det er dog også en lettelse i forhold til de lempede krav, der før herskede under
præstationssamfundets, som muligvis har medført en pause for de præstationskrav, der herskede
inden nedlukningerne. Denne forståelse er ligeledes undersøgt i tråd med WHO’s definition af
mental sundhed, hvor det ud fra bestemte situationer er fremanalyseret hvordan informanterne
oplever en positiv trivsel, og hvilke situationer der udløser en negativ indvirkning af mental trivsel.
På den ene side har de unge oplevet et afsavn og mere overfladisk interaktion på det digitale format.
På den anden side er der også opstået en dybdegående relation i kontakten med dem, de har mødtes
med. Behovet for autenticitet kan derfor for Charlottes vedkommende opnås nemmere når hun skal
forholde sig til færre personer, frem for mange, og samtidig kan der også opstå komplikationer i
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