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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Konklusion
I dette speciale projekt har jeg undersøgt følgende problemformulering; hvordan de unge har
oplevet at håndtere deres nye hverdagsliv under Covid-19 pandemien, og hvilke mulige
konsekvenser nedlukningerne har haft af betydning for deres mentale sundhed. Projektet er opdelt i
tre analysedele, der er fokus på henholdsvis sociale fællesskaber, hverdagsliv, og konsekvenser for
de unges mentale sundhed.
Alle tre informanter i projektet har oplevet at deres sociale fællesskaber har gennemgået en
forandring. På den ene side har de unge oplevet et afsavn og mere overfladisk social interaktion
gennem digitale format. På den anden side er der også opstået en dybdegående relation i kontakten
med dem de har mødtes med.
Der er analyseret med afsæt i Rosas teoretiske begreb om social acceleration, og denne har været
høj under første nedlukning. Det ser jeg ved de mange forandringer der er sket, under første
nedlukning. Omvendt er acceleration af tempoet sat ned under anden nedlukning, da der ifølge
informanterne ikke længere hersker et socialt pres, grundet de ændrede normer for at mødes.
Under Covid-19 nedlukningerne har strukturen for informanternes hverdag forandret sig. På den
ene side, så har det skabt mulighed for at de kunne få plads og mulighed for at få nye interesser som
de har kunnet fordybe sig i. På den anden side, har de unge oplevet flere udfordringer forbundet
med at skabe struktur for hverdagslivet er opstået ved de ændrede tidsstrukturer, hvilket har været
medårsag til at det har været svært at omstille sig til de nye rammer under en forandret hverdag. Der
er flere udfordringer som handler om at informanterne har oplevet nye barrierer forbundet med at
skabe struktur for hverdagslivet, det har betydet at de har haft svært ved at etablere vaner, som
understøtter informanterne i deres studieliv og sociale fællesskaber. Det kunne fx være at finde den
nødvendige tid til at varetage nye fritidsinteresser, herunder hækle, tegne og løbe, som en strategi
for at skabe ro i hovedet. Teoretisk kan udfordringer forstås ud fra Rosas begreb om acceleration af
livs tempoet, da informanterne tilkendegiver at de føler behov for at gøre flere ting på mindre tid,
som de hidtil ikke har været vant til.
Informanterne oplever under den første nedlukning at der er et pres som er lettet. Det er både
tilfældet i studiemæssige sammenhænge og i forhold til den sociale omgang. Under den anden
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