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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kommet mere ro og tid til fordybelse. Dette har Charlotte et eksempel på, selvom dette har en klang
af tvetydighed:
“Under første nedlukning, var det rart fordi jeg var sammen med mennesker hele tiden, så det var
rart under den første nedlukning, at få lidt tid hvor man bare kunne slappe af, og hvor det ikke var
noget man skulle hele tiden.” (Charlotte).
Det viser sig at der er store forskelle på hvordan informanterne hver især, har oplevet henholdsvis
de to nedlukninger. Det er tydeligt hvorvidt Charlotte ser en ændring i den sociale kontakt som
under den første nedlukning hvor hun var sammen med sine venner. Men at der under den anden
nedlukning oplever hun sig mere isoleret og ensom. Karoline nævner også hvorvidt den
utilstrækkelige sociale kontakt skaber isolation og ensomhed, da hendes udfordringer kan findes
grund i samfundsstrukturer som, er skyld i hendes påvirkninger, og ikke de sociale mangler hos den
enkelte som har været medårsag til denne sociale isolation. Det tomrum som før var kendetegnet
som ensomheds problematik før Covid-19 nedlukning, er under nedlukningen blevet det nye
normale. Charlotte nævner at hun ikke skulle noget konstant, og at hun har mærket at det føltes rart,
det fortæller os om hvilke problematikker som unge havde inden indtræden af Covid-19
nedlukningerne. Det er også tydeligt hvorvidt Lars og Karoline oplever udfordringer ved at føle sig
tilpas med at trives i eget selskab, da normen for ungdomslivet længe har været kendetegnet at man
havde et stort socialt netværk. Det er især bemærkelsesværdigt at alle informanterne har det tilfælles
at de forsøger at trives gennem ændrede gøremål, og dette medfører også frigivelse af tid til at andre
nye hobbyer har haft muligheder for at blomstre.
Delkonklusion
I andet analyseafsnit undersøges ungdomslivets udvikling i det moderne samfund før Covid-19
nedlukningerne. Dette sammenholdes med udviklingen under Covid-19 nedlukningerne, hvor der er
analyseret på hvorvidt de unge informanter har været påvirket af de forandrede rammer i deres
hverdagsliv. Informanterne udtaler sig om hvordan nye interesser er opstået for dem under
nedlukningerne, og om hvilke betydninger det individuelt har haft for dem.
På den ene side har de unge informanter oplevet flere af de nye interesser som positive, men der er
også flere negative aspekter forbundet med de forandrede rammer i hverdagslivet. Den positive del,
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