Prior to the shutdown, 25 percent of respondents said they felt highly or somewhat lonely.
The proportion exploded during the closure to 66 percent, according to the survey, which was conducted among 759 students.
The increase is worrying, says Thomas Braun, director of Student Counseling.
– The shutdown has been going on for a year with small interruptions. As a result, loneliness and discouragement have become too much of too many students’ study time, and you do not have to be a skilled psychologist from the Student Counseling to see that it can make a big difference in young people’s lives, he says to Information.
The survey also shows that a high proportion feel stressed and that as many as 78 percent lack motivation.
According to Kristian Nysom Lassen, who is chairman of Djøf Studerende, it is far from optimal that the students do not attend the universities.
– It is clear that people do not thrive in the fact that there is no interaction between leisure and study, he says.
– I can personally also feel that the discipline, in relation to when it is leisure and working life, disappears. Many may feel that there is no excuse for not working, as you are still sitting in front of the computer.
For Information, Rillo Snerup Rud, director of Ventilen, which works with lonely young people, suggests that universities could do more to create a social environment online.
Minister of Education and Research Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen (S) takes the figures seriously, she tells Information.
She warns that there will be some form of help on the way and states that the parliamentary parties are in negotiations for help for the students.
Source: The Nordic Page