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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studiemæssige der mindede dem om deres hidtidige hverdag. Dette kan tolkes ud fra Rosas
udlægning af begrebet; acceleration af livs tempoet som er faldet, og det er tydeligt at bemærke i
forhold til udviklingen af informanternes mentale sundhed, er markant bedre under den 1.
nedlukning.
Under 2. nedlukning oplever begge informanter at Tempoet er sænket, men de oplever de samme
krav som de skal leve op til. Det er det der gør det svært i forhold til at informanterne oplever en
rastløshed og forværring af deres mentale sundhed. En acceleration af et livstempo, er ifølge Rosa
det der typisk fører til at mennesket udsættes for et pres, som kan gøre mennesker syge af stress
(Rosa, 2016, s. 26). Rosa beskriver at man lever i en usikker tid, og hvis man prøver at indsætte
hvad individet skal kunne holde til, som et element i tiden under Covid-19 nedlukningerne, kan
Rosas teori, anvendes til at forstå hvilke forestillinger der hersker for hvad informanterne skulle
kunne, i forhold til hvad der forventes af dem. Det er derfor relevant om de forandrede rammer, kan
anskues som en forværring af nogle ting, og begrænsning af tempoet til forventninger til dem selv,
under Covid-19 nedlukningerne.
(...) at vi lever i en usikker tid, der kræver en anderledes forestilling om, hvad individet skal kunne
holde til, end det var tilfældet i risikosamfundet (Rosa, 2014 s.27).
Charlotte og Karoline er stærkt medtaget af de ændrede sociale mønstre og de studiemæssige pres
som tydeligvis sætter krav om at skulle tilpasse sig, som ifølge Rosa, kan det betyde at der i
præstationssamfundet hersker nogle andre usikre faktorer, som informanterne skal kunne omstille
sig til.
Igen viser det sig at denne usikre tid, stiller krav om at informanterne tilpasser sig forandrede
rammer at indgå i sociale relationer, såvel som at kunne navigere via digitale platforme, både social
og studiemæssigt. Dette er i tråd med nogle af de udfordringer og barrierer som informanterne
nævner de har mødt som udfordrende.
Rosa nævner, at den konstante konkurrence som definition på højhastighedssamfundet der herskede
inden Covid-19, som medvirker til følelsen af fremmedgørelse af én selv. Karoline udtaler i
interviewet at hun ikke føler, hun opnår noget, eller udvikler sig, hvilket hun mener er årsag til det,
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