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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udfolder sig ved at informanterne har fundet tid og mulighed til at fordybe sig i meningsfulde
gøremål, som de ikke har oplevet at kunne førhen, som blandt andet at dyrke online fællesskaber.
På den anden side har de udfordringer der især har været, handlet om de ændrede tidsstrukturer for
hverdagen, som har været svært at omstille sig til. Informanterne har fundet alternative måder at
være sammen på, der gør at de kunne leve op til afstandskravet under nedlukningerne, da de ikke
har kunne udføre de normale gøremål som ungdomslivet dækker over. Den manglende fysiske og
sociale kontakt har også skabt udfordringer i form af manglende følelse i at sanse i de givne sociale
relationer, som de unge var vant til at indgå i. Ydermere har nedlukningerne begrænset muligheden
for sociale aktiviteter, hvilket har betydet at de unge informanter fortæller om en mindre kontakt til
deres sociale omgangskreds og venner, som har givet udfordringer på emner som isolation og
ensomhed. Den manglende opfyldelse af behovet for social kontakt, har givet de unge informanter
stof til eftertanke, og der fortælles at de værdsætter dagligdagen betydeligt mere under
nedlukningerne.
Nedlukningerne skaber både nye muligheder og begrænsninger. Dette er fordi hverdagslivet skal
leves under nye vilkår i de unges fællesskaber. Den ændrede hverdagsstruktur under
nedlukningerne har givet anledning til en manglende resonans, som fremstår hos de unge
informanter. Der er også tilfælde hvor den begrænsede fysiske kontakt har været medvirkende årsag
til at finde mening i en forandret hverdag, eksempelvis et tidsoverskud i hverdagen, som har kunnet
understøtte muligheden for at udføre en fritidsinteresse.
De forandrede strukturer har påvirket de unge informanters hverdagsliv, og har haft betydning for
deres interesser og rammer.
I næste analyseafsnit udfoldes det hvordan den ændrede hverdag har præget de unge informanters
nye oplevelsesverden. Desuden nuanceres forskelligheden af hvordan de unge tilkendegiver at
opleve deres mentale sundhed før og under Covid-19 nedlukningerne.
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