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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at hun ikke føler hun er på vej et sted hen, hvilket er en tydelig indikation på at hun har været
præget af den konstant og eksistentiel konkurrence før Covid-19, som også er med til at frembringe
hende en følelse af fremmedgørelse.
Charlotte nævner, at hun føler det har været rart, at det sociale pres ikke hersker i samme omfang,
som inden Covid-19 nedlukningerne, hvor hun under samfundet inden Covid-19 oplevede en
markant forøgelse af pres for at leve op til de sociale normer i hendes vennekreds. Denne form for
pres for at skulle præstere i bestemte situationer, kan forklares ud fra WHO’s definition af mental
sundhed (Vidensråd for forebyggelse, 2020. s.41). Det er tydeligt hvorvidt informanterne kan udtale
sig om en forbedring af deres trivsel før, under og til forskel for de to nedlukninger. Denne
forårsagede afledning for måden normerne har ændret sig, kan findes forståelse i det sociale og
hverdagen, som for Charlotte har været en lettelse, fordi hun føler at skulle præstere mindre i
hendes sociale fælleskaber. I Karolines tilfælde skaber manglende forudsigelighed for indhold der
var for hverdagen inden Covid-19, både en begrænsende effekt, men også et ”kompas” når hun
nævner at hun ikke føler at opnå noget, fordi hun ikke er i stand til at spore om hun lever op til
nogle resultatmål, hvilket har været en tydelig indikation for hendes velbefindende og øget en
fremmedgørende effekt.
Disse beskrivelser, er ligeledes i overensstemmelse med Rosas begreb om fremmedgørelse, som
han defineres ud fra følgende;
” (…) I første omgang kan fremmedgørelse defineres som en tilstand, hvor subjekter forfølger mål
eller udøver praksisser, der på den ene side ikke påtvinges dem af ydre faktorer eller aktører - der
er altså velfungerende alternativer – men som de på den anden side heller ikke ’rigtig’ ønsker eller
støtter” (Rosa, 2014, s.94).
Begrebet om fremmedgørelse, er knyttet an til Rosas begreb om social acceleration (Rosa, 2016.
s.23). Dette viser sig i forbindelse med betydningen af de sociale relationer, herunder den sociale og
fysiske nærhed er blevet mindre relevant. Karoline kan ligeledes også genkende dette, ved blandt
andet at komme med eksempel på, at der ikke længere er en uskrevet regel om at hendes veninder
forventer at hun skal være tilstedeværende i nattelivet i weekenden, hvilket hun anså som et pres på
hende. Karoline udtrykker at opleve et skift i den sociale og fysiske nærhed, kan tolkes som tiltag
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