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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Formål med projektet
Formålet med dette projekt er at skabe en dybere indsigt i de unges hverdag under nye betingelser,
herunder undersøge nærmere hvordan de unge har oplevet deres sociale fælleskaber, og om de har
oplevet en mærkbar ændring af den mentale sundhed, som afledt konsekvens af nedlukningerne. De
præstationskrav som er skabt i et “præstationssamfund”, som er samfunds betegnelse for Anders
Petersens definition af den herskende samfundsdiagnose inden Covid-19 (Pedersen, 2016. s.15).
Det vil også være baggrund for den samme samfundsbeskrivelse under dette specialeprojekts
udformning. Dette projekt vil belyse hvordan det er at leve i dette præstationssamfund i forbindelse
med den udvikling de unge befinder sig i under Covid-19 pandemien, det vil sige at analysens
hensigt er at beskrive de unges oplevelser og erfaringer af Covid-19 pandemien.
For at kunne undersøge dette udarbejdes arbejdsspørgsmål som omhandler emner omkring hvad
Covid-19 pandemien har af betydning for de unge gymnasieelevers hverdag, og om de unges
sociale relationer har ændret betydning. Gennem interviews af målgruppen indsamles den empiri,
der skal understøtte en analyse af informanternes oplevelsesverden under henholdsvis 2. nedlukning
af Covid-19 pandemien.
Mit valg af teori og dertil empiriske fund for dette projekt skal både kortlægge og analysere unge
16-24-årige gymnasieelevers hverdagsliv, sociale fællesskaber og mentale sundhed under
henholdsvis første og anden nedlukninger af Covid-19. Jeg har valgt at fokusere på unge i
aldersgruppen 16 - 24-årige, denne inspiration fandt jeg gennem eksisterende undersøgelser. Dette
vil jeg uddybe i baggrundsafsnittet for min undersøgelse.
Problemfelt
Projektets problemfelt vil blive belyst og analyseret, gennem en åben og nysgerrig tilgang. Jeg vil i
problemfeltet præsentere en empirisk baggrund som er resultat af et nyligt publiceret
forskningsprojekt “Stå sammen ved at holde afstand” lanceret af (The Lancet Regional Health
Europe). I rapporten beskrives hvorledes nedlukningerne i Danmark har påvirket det psykiske
helbred i overvejende grad hos unge under 30 år (Madsen m.fl. 2021). Derudover viser resultaterne
at hver fjerde dansker under 30 år, har oplevet ensomhed (Madsen, m.fl. 2021).
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