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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det derfor relevant at inddrage Rosa begreb; accelerationen af livs tempoet, denne form for
acceleration kan bruges i forhold til at forstå hvorfor Karoline føler et behov for at gøre flere ting på
mindre tid (Rosa. 2016. s.26). Karoline giver udtryk for at hun har ændret sine vaner, således at hun
kan motivere sig til stadig at leve op til hverdagens gøremål, selvom hun giver udtryk for at dette er
en klar udfordring, det er også tydeligt at der er meget på spil i forhold til hendes drømme og
ønsker, i tilfælde af at hun ikke formår at leve op til de ændrede hverdagsvilkår kan det betyde, en
bekræftelse i at fejle på de ønskelige strukturelle rammer.
Karoline føler sig utilpas ved kravet om ikke at kunne mødes med flere på samme tid, på grund af
restriktionerne. Denne utilpasse reaktion kan tolkes som en direkte konsekvens af, at samfundet er
medvirkende årsag til at Karoline ikke er i stand til at mærke hendes egne behov eller følelser.
Karoline føler at, det at være sammen med mennesker, er noget der hjælper hende til at udvikle sig
som menneske, og hun er tydelig præget af det moderne samfund.
Konkurrencesamfund og mere tid
Charlotte fortæller at under den første nedlukning, mærkede hun ikke de store forandringer i sin
hverdag, fordi hun stadigvæk var sammen med mennesker på daværende tidspunkt. Dog befinder
Charlotte sig i en tilstand under udvikling, hun beskriver at have ændret sig under den anden
nedlukning, og dette anerkender Charlotte som noget positivt, i forhold til at hun har oplevet at få
mere tid med andre ting som hun føler vægter højere end hun gjorde før. Rosas bud på udvikling
med afsæt i tidsfordel, beskrives i følgende citat:
“(...) ifølge vestens fremherskende kulturelle logik kan livets rigdom, fylde eller kvalitet opgøres ud
fra summen og dybden af de erfaringer, man gør sig gennem et helt liv. Ud fra den livsopfattelse er
det gode liv ensbetydende med et fuldt liv, dvs. et liv, der er rigt på erfaringer og udfoldende evner”
(Rosa, 2014. s.36).
Rosa definerer et fuldt liv, som et liv der indbefatter nye erfaringer gennem livet, og sammenholdt
med Charlottes udsagn er det også det der opleves med hverdagsstrukturen. Forstået således at
Charlotte løbende har haft en del erfaringer under nedlukningerne både på godt og ondt og det har
også udfoldet hendes evner. Ydermere har alle informanterne fået øjnene op for nogle ting om sig
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