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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nedlukning har informanterne oplevet noget andet end i den første nedlukning. De udfordringer som
informanterne tilkendegiver, beskriver de forandringer i de sociale fællesskaber og
hverdagsstruktur, som har haft negative konsekvenser for informanternes mentale sundhed.
Informanterne oplever blandt andet følelsen af rastløshed, isolation, stress, samt manglende
motivation.
På den ene side kan det med Petersens begreb om præstationssamfundet forstås således, at
informanterne oplevede en lettelse under første nedlukning, da præstationskravene ikke eksisterede
i samme omfang som før Covid-19. På den anden side er der sket en forværring, af deres mentale
tilstand under den anden nedlukning. Da selvom acceleration af livs tempoet er sænket oplever
informanterne at der bliver stillet de samme krav, som eksisterede inden Covid-19 nedlukningerne.
Der er med dette speciale undersøgt hvilke mulige konsekvenser nedlukninger kan have af
betydning for informanternes mentale sundhed. Det betyder samlet set, at informanternes måde at
anskue deres fortællinger om ændrede sociale fællesskaber, betydningen af hverdagslivet, har været
forskelligt fra henholdsvis de to nedlukninger. Hvor første nedlukning har medført en lettelse, har
anden nedlukning øget et mentalt pres for at leve op til normerne.
Specialets konklusioner tydeliggør sammenhængen mellem udsatte unge, og samfundsmæssige
strukturer. Det gør det relevant at forholde sig til det socialt arbejdes felt, gennem de
samfundsmæssige forandringer der påvirkes gennem de specifikke udfordringer, som informanterne
tilkendegiver under Covid-19 pandemien. Specialet kan derudover bidrage til en opmærksomhed i
mødet mellem sårbar unge, og socialt arbejde på en måde at man som socialarbejder ude i praksis
kan fokusere på, de barrierer der knyttes an til nogle af de betingelser som umuliggør, det at kunne
opretholde de genkendelige mønstre, ved at støtte til at fremme en øget livsmestring i hverdagen.
Disse udfordringer kan efter min mening imødegås gennem anvendelse af indsatser som har til
formål at sikre strukturer i forhold relationel kontinuitet. Indsatserne skal ligeledes styrke sårbar
unge i at forvalte en forandret hverdag, på en måde som kan påvirke dem positivt i at leve op til en
forandret rammebetingelse i forbindelse med at strukturere og koordinere praktiske opgaver i
hjemmet. Gennem relations arbejde, mener jeg at man i det sociale arbejde kan styrke sårbare unge i
at fremme positive selvforhold til sig selv, og derved opnå at leve med en øget mental sundhed.
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