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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selv som de ikke vidste var en mulighed. Lars, Charlotte og Karoline, har alle tilfælles, at de har
lært at kende nogle nye sider af dem selv, som Rosa definere som et fuldt liv.
”(...) det moderne menneske vil altid føle sig på “glatis” i et konkurrencesamfund præget af
accelereret social forandring inden for alle samfundssfærer” (Rosa, 2014, s.39).
Disse erfaringer hos informanter kan have skabt en følelse af tvivl, som i Rosas teori også defineres
som at det moderne menneskes tilstand i et konkurrencesamfund føles som værende på “glatis”
(Rosa, 2014, s.39).
Dette kan muligvis tolkes som usikkerhed, men hos informanterne findes også positive aspekter,
som informanterne ikke ville have haft en chance for at opdage, hvis det ikke havde været for
Covid-19 nedlukningerne. Rosa definerer en ikke ændret hverdag, som værende komfortabel, frem
for den ændrede hverdag, der kan skabe rum for nye rammer. Dette kommer blandt andet til udtryk
under interviewet med Lars, som udtaler sig omkring indholdet af en almindelig hverdag inden
Covid-19 nedlukningerne.
(...) inden Corona havde jeg normalt fri kl. 15-tiden. Derefter skulle jeg være til træning 45 min.
efter. Det var hele tiden at skynde sig hjem og få lidt at spise, og videre til næste gøremål i den
travle hverdag (Lars).
Rosas forklaring om det moderne menneskes ønsker og behov, er samtidig forbundet med
udfordringer, eftersom han nævner mennesket som “kapitalisten” som en person der konstant søgen
efter vækst og udvikling, i mangel af herpå, vil det moderne menneske risikere at miste sin status:
“Kapitalisten kan ikke standse op og hvile sig, stå af ræset og sikre sin position, for han er enten på
vej op eller på vej ned” (Rosa, 2014, s.39).
Det er så vidt angår tydeligt at alle informanterne søger at opfylde behovet for de gøremål, de
udførte inden Covid-19 nedlukningerne indtraf. Det er dog bemærkelsesværdigt hvorvidt udtalte
fordele er opstået i hverdagen. Informanterne fortæller i et retrospekt hvorvidt de altid havde travlt,
og enten ikke havde tid, eller måtte omprioritere ønsker og behov, men at der under nedlukningen er
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