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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Charlotte har altså oplevet en lettelse i forhold til sit mentale helbred under den første nedlukning,
og hun fortæller at hun har fået mere overskud som studerende i hverdagen, og i det sociale.
Ligeledes forklarer Karoline om hvorvidt hun også har oplevet en lettelse af forventningerne med at
skulle præstere socialt. Dette vidner om at Karoline inden Covid-19 nedlukningerne følte at der var
en høj forventning for at præstere og at kunne håndtere krav om at deltage i sociale fællesskaber.
Dette har hun på den ene side følt en lettelse omkring, men hun beskriver også at hun manglede
noget i hverdagen, som konsekvens af den manglende sociale kontakt til hendes klassekammerater.
“ (…) ja altså der kan jo ikke rigtig være det pres, som jeg inden Covid-19 havde, ved blandt andet
at man skulle tage ud hver weekend, som nærmest stod på hver fredag og lørdag, altså det er der
kommet meget mere ro på, fordi nu ligger den ikke på mig, men det er fordi man rent faktisk ikke
må” (Karoline).
Selvom Karoline har fået ro omkring flere ting i hverdagen, er hun også ret medtaget af en følelse af
manglende fokus ved online undervisning. Hvilket giver hende et indre pres for at skulle optimere
produktiviteten, og bruge tiden fornuftigt i hverdagen, men det er svært når hun ikke kommer ud og
får den rigtige læring ved fysisk tilstedeværende på skolen.
” (…) jeg tror en stor del af det at gå i skole, er også den læringsmål der skabes, og den sociale
omgang der er med elever og lærer, for den sags skyld at sidde fysisk overfor folk, og også det
hyggeligt at snakke lidt over tingene, gruppearbejde, og også det at det kræver meget at række ud,
men man sidder bag en skærm - det stresser en del at man er bagud, og ikke kan præstere så meget
som man gerne vil til online undervisning”(Karoline).
Karoline er umiddelbar medtaget af online undervisning, da den manglende kontakt mellem læreren
og eleverne ikke har været medieret gennem en skærm. Derudover har der været en manglende
kontakt eleverne i mellem. Der er derudover nogle andre barrierer til at aktivere sig selv til
undervisning gennem en skærm, som gør noget forskelligt, og dette kommer til udtryk hos
informanterne som et manglende behov.
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