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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som modvirker de fremmedgørende handlinger. Den teoretiske kobling fra Anders Petersen, viser at
de normer som herskede under præstationssamfundet har ændret sig i takt med et samfund som
lukkede ned. Det gik fra en lettelse af presset fra præstationssamfundet under 1. nedlukning, til at
være en anden form for pres, som udløste en forværring af det mentale helbred under den 2.
nedlukning.
Delkonklusion
Den nye hverdag under Covid-19 nedlukninger har præget den mentale sundhed på en måde at der
både er sket en lettelse og forværringer af informanternes mentale tilstand. Under første nedlukning
oplever informanterne at der er et pres som er lettet. Det er på både tilfælde i studiemæssige
sammenhænge og i forhold til den sociale omgang. Denne lettelse af pres, er forklaret ud fra
Sundhedsstyrelsen og WHO’s definition af mental sundhed. Disse definitioner er anvendt til at
forklare årsager til de bestemte situationer som har forhindret muligheden i at opleve en positiv
mental sundhed. Med Sundhedsstyrelsen definition, er der undersøgt hvordan informanternes
mentale sundhed har været skiftende, i forhold til hvordan de har levet under bestemte situationer,
før under og til forskel for henholdsvis de to nedlukninger.
WHO’s definition er ligeledes anvendt til at belyse hvordan en positiv mental sundhed er blevet
oplevet af de unge i deres hverdagsliv og sociale relationer. Med Petersen begreb om
præstationssamfundet kan vi forstå det at informanterne oplevede en lettelse fordi nogle af de
præstationskrav der herskede før nedlukningen, ikke længere har været tilstedeværende under den
første nedlukning. Under anden nedlukning oplever informanterne en forværring af deres mentale
tilstand. Med Rosa kan det forstås sådan at, acceleration af livs tempoet er sænket, men de unge
oplever de samme krav fra præstationssamfundet. På baggrund af projektets 3 analysedele er der
undersøgt hvordan de unge har oplevet at håndtere deres nye hverdagsliv under Covid-19
pandemien, og hvilke mulige konsekvenser nedlukningerne har haft for deres mentale sundhed. I
konklusionen vil jeg samle op på de tre analysedele og diskutere hvordan de teoretiske forståelser er
funderet i analysen.
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