In our research we studied burnout and select health problems in a sample o
f 445 basic (46 %), special (19 %) and high school (35 %) teachers. All sch
ools were located in Slovakia. Our results did not confirm the expected hig
h burnout in this professional group, however, we found significantly highe
r score in classic phobias in the group of older teachers and significantly
higher score in exhaustion (in the sense of a lower score in the so-called
personal accomplishment). The most significant differences are in the high
er score in social anxiety, which is present among teachers who are just be
ginning to teach and those with years of teaching practice. The emotional e
xhaustion indicator (EE) correlates positively with classic phobias, social
anxiety, stage fright, depersonalization, neuroticism and also with greate
r occurrence of health problems in the gastrointestinal and cardiovascular
areas.